The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Murray Bookchin
Language: English
Pages: 480
ISBN: 1904859267
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human.” With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope, its inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today’s globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
Murray Bookchin, cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology, has been an active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than 40 years. The author of numerous books and articles, he lives in Burlington, Vermont.
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Actually the point of departure for a new beginning. How much human freedom rests on the stability of the natural ecosystem in which it is always embedded, what it means in a larger philosophical sense beyond mere survival, and what standards it evolves from its shared history with the entire world of life and its own social history are subjects for the rest of this book. I WI ithin this highly complex con text of ideas we must now try to transpose the nonhierarchical character of natural.
A desire for knowledge for its own sake." That preliterate communities achieve a remarkably sensitive and knowledgeable adaptation to their environments is certainly true, but a "watchful interest" nourished by grim need is a far cry from "a genuinely scientific attitude," which even an Archimedes lacked during the heights of the Hellenistic era. See Erich Isaac, The Geography of Domestication (Englewood Cliffs, N . J . : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970); C. D. Darlington, "The Origins of Agriculture,".
Domination of the natural world. Until the devel opment of modern industry (both Marx and Engels argued), the new surpluses produced by precapitalist technics may vary quantitatively, but rarely are they sufficient to provide abundance and leisure for more than a for tunate minority. Given the relatively low level of preindustrial technics, enough surpluses can be produced to sustain a privileged class of rulers, perhaps even a substantial one under exceptionally favorable geographic and.
Of women in the Hebrew Epistemologies of Rule 1 03 Hebrews is a correlate of their insistence on the unconditioned nature of God. Only a God who transcends every phenomenon, who is not condi tioned by any mode of manifestation-only an unqualified God can be the one and only ground of all existence. Behind such cosmogonies lies the dialectic of a contradictory rationality, at once liberating and repressive-as reason embedded in myth. Doubt lessly, real intellectual powers are being.
Between a shame-culture and a guilt-culture around the same time, based largely on early Hellenic materials. See E. R. Dodds: Tile Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951). That I have not drawn extensively on Dodds' work is due merely to oversight. His work was not known to me when these lines were wntten. 116 The Ecology of Freedom more sophisticated forms, as ethics, it is the realm of the philosopher and political thinker. These precepts reflect an.