Anarchism as Political Philosophy

Name: Anarchism as Political Philosophy
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Reports of people rejecting political authority, assaulting it with words and often violent acts, are actions that are part of modern life > \nReports of people rejecting political authority, assaulting it with words and often violent acts, are actions that are part of modern life. Anarchism has been considered a dead movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, but it assumed a renewed and substantial relevance in the late twentieth century. Robert Hoffman points out in his incisive Introduction that anarchists have always been viewed either as foolish idealists or, at the other extreme, as serious threats to justice and social tranquility. But, the editor argues, most anarchists have been ordinary people who have shared a singular passion for what they believe to be a just society.