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The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought: Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension

By Richard Morgan

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
0429773498, 9780429773495
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
527 kB (539162 bytes)
Pages
154\0
Time added
2023-04-05 14:04:49

Description

This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin’s anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration, and hygiene were for him not metaphors but rather key political concerns. It goes on to discuss how for Kropotkin's bio-political anarchism, the state, capitalism, and revolution were medical concerns whose effects on the individual and society were measurable by social statistics and explainable by bio-social-medical knowledge. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin’s anarchism.

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