The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought: Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension...

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Richard Morgan

The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought

Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension

Richard Morgan

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English

Routledge
29 April 2022

Regional studies; Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory; Anarchism; Regional geography

Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin’s 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 understanding Kropotkin’s anarchism.

By: Richard Morgan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 231g
ISBN: 9780367563127
ISBN 10: 0367563126
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 29 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Knowledge and methods 1. Forms of knowledge 2. Mapping, statistics, and social law Part II: Diagnoses and remedies 3. The state 4. Capitalism and the bourgeoisie 5. Revolution Postscript: the ambivalence of Kropotkin’s anarchist thought

Richard Morgan completed his doctorate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.