The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought by Richard Morgan - 9781138365650

Name: The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought by Richard Morgan - 9781138365650
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Richard Morgan

The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist ThoughtDisease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension\nAuthor(s): Richard Morgan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138365650, 978-1138365650\nSynopsis\nThis book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkins 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 understand.