Murray Bookchin 
Toward an Ecological Society [EPUB ebook] 

Visionary essays from a founder of the modern ecology movement.

In this collection of essays, Murray Bookchin’s vision for an ecological society remains central as he addresses questions of urbanism and city planning, technology, self-management, energy, utopianism, and more. Throughout, he opposes efforts to reduce ecology to a toothless “environmentalism, ” a task as vital today as when these essays were first published. Written between 1969 and 1979, the essays in this collection represent a fascinating and fertile period in Bookchin’s life. Coming out of the unfulfilled promise of the sixties and trying to develop a revolutionary critique of social life that avoided the pitfalls of Marxism, he was entering his creative intellectual peak. He was laying the foundations of a truly social ecology: a society based on decentralization, interdependence, democratic self-management, mutual aid, and solidarity. Presented with clarity and fervor, these key works contain the kernels of concerns that would occupy him until his death in 2006. This edition also includes a new foreword by Dan Chodorkoff, someone who was with Bookchin at the founding of his Institute for Social Ecology and who understand his work better than anyone.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction

The Power to Create, The Power to Destroy

Toward an Ecological Society

An open letter to the Ecological Movement

Energy, “Ecotechnocracy” and Ecology

The Concept of Ecotechnologies and Ecocommunities

Self-Management and the New Technology

The Myth of City Planning

Toward a Vision of the Urban Future

Marxism as Bourgeois Sociology

On Neo-Marxism, Bureaucracy, and the Body Politic

On Spontaneity and Organisation

Conclusion: Utopianism and Futurism

Appendix: Andre Gorz Rides Again — or Politics as Environmentalism

Acknowledgements

Om författaren

Dan Chodorkoff is a writer and educator who co-founded The Institute for Social Ecology with Murray Bookchin. He received his Ph D in cultural anthropology from the New School for Social Research, and he is the author of numerous books, including The Anthropology of Utopia: Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development and the 2022 novel Sugaring Down. He received a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant for anthropological research, and in 2015 was awarded the Goddard College Presidential Award for Activism.