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

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

Hardcover

Series: Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138365653
ISBN13: 9781138365650
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 9 2020
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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