The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist, Chartier, Van-Schoelandt..

Taylor & Francis

The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist ThoughtAuthor(s): Gary Chartier, Chad Van Schoelandt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138737587, 978-1138737587\nSynopsis\nThis Handbook offers an authoritative, up-to-date introduction to the rich scholarly conversation about anarchyabout the possibility, dynamics, and appeal of social order without the state. Drawing on resources from philosophy, economics, law, history, politics, and religious studies, it is designed to deepen understanding of anarchy and the development of anarchist ideas at a time when those ideas have attracted increasing attention. The popular identification of anarchy with chaos makes sophisticated interpretationswhich recognize anarchy as a kind of social order rather than an alternative to itespecially interesting. Strong, centralized governments have struggled to quell popular frustration even as doubts have continued to percolate about .