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

by Richard Morgan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367563126
• ISBN13: 9780367563127
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"