{"product_id":"toward-an-ecological-society-paperback","title":"Toward an Ecological Society - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDan Chodorkoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVisionary essays from a founder of the modern ecology movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of essays, Murray Bookchin's vision for an ecological society remains central as he addresses questions of urbanism and city planning, technology, self-management, energy, utopianism, and more. Throughout, he opposes efforts to reduce ecology to a toothless \"environmentalism,\" a task as vital today as when these essays were first published. Written between 1969 and 1979, the essays in this collection represent a fascinating and fertile period in Bookchin's life. Coming out of the unfulfilled promise of the sixties and trying to develop a revolutionary critique of social life that avoided the pitfalls of Marxism, he was entering his creative intellectual peak. He was laying the foundations of a truly social ecology: a society based on decentralization, interdependence, democratic self-management, mutual aid, and solidarity. Presented with clarity and fervor, these key works contain the kernels of concerns that would occupy him until his death in 2006. This edition also includes a new foreword by Dan Chodorkoff, someone who was with Bookchin at the founding of his Institute for Social Ecology and who understand his work better than anyone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/b\u003e (1921-2006) was a leading voice in the ecology, anarchist, and communalist movements for more than fifty years. His groundbreaking essay \"Ecology and Revolutionary Thought\" (1964) was one of the first to assert that capitalism's grow-or-die ethos was on a dangerous collision course with the natural world that would include the devastation of the planet by global warming. Bookchin is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ecology of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, among two dozen other books. He was born in New York, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Chodorkoff \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and educator who cofounded The Institute for Social Ecology with Murray Bookchin. He received his PhD in cultural anthropology from the New School for Social Research, and he is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropology of Utopia: Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development\u003c\/i\u003e and the 2022 novel \u003ci\u003eSugaring Down\u003c\/i\u003e. He received a Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant for anthropological research, and in 2015 was awarded the Goddard College Presidential Award for Activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 340\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726401605695,"sku":"9781849354448","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cdba5107f90323b45098fa3afc0b6b24.webp?v=1765110611","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/toward-an-ecological-society-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}