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This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist
theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary
understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although
anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of
international relations, scholarship has largely ignored the
insights of the first anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Proudhon's
anarchism was a critique of the projects of national unification,
universal dominion, republican statism and the providentialism at
the heart of enlightenment social theory. While his break with the
key tropes of modernity pushed him to the margins of political
theory, Prichard links Proudhon back into the republican tradition
of political thought from which his ideas emerged, and shows how
his defence of anarchy was a critique of the totalising modernist
projects of his contemporaries. Given that we are today moving
beyond the very statist processes Proudhon objected to, his
writings present an original take on how to institutionalise
justice and order in our radically pluralised, anarchic
international order.
Rethinking the concept and understanding of anarchy, "Justice,
Order and Anarchy" will be of interest to students and scholars of
political philosophy, anarchism and international relations
theory.
If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may
answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and
violence. But is this true? What exactly is anarchism? This Very
Short Introduction provides a new point of departure for our
understanding of anarchism. Prichard describes anarchism as a lived
set of practices, with a rich historical legacy, and shows how
anarchists have inspired and criticised some of our most cherished
values and concepts, from the ideals of freedom, participatory
education, federalism, to important topics like climate change, and
wider popular culture in science fiction. By locating the emergence
and globalization of anarchist ideas in a history of colonialism
and imperialism, the book links anarchism into struggles for
freedom across the world and demonstrates that anarchism has much
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This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist
theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary
understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although
anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of
international relations, scholarship has largely ignored the
insights of the first anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Proudhon's
anarchism was a critique of the projects of national unification,
universal dominion, republican statism and the providentialism at
the heart of enlightenment social theory. While his break with the
key tropes of modernity pushed him to the margins of political
theory, Prichard links Proudhon back into the republican tradition
of political thought from which his ideas emerged, and shows how
his defence of anarchy was a critique of the totalising modernist
projects of his contemporaries. Given that we are today moving
beyond the very statist processes Proudhon objected to, his
writings present an original take on how to institutionalise
justice and order in our radically pluralised, anarchic
international order. Rethinking the concept and understanding of
anarchy, Justice, Order and Anarchy will be of interest to students
and scholars of political philosophy, anarchism and international
relations theory.
The history of the left is usually told as one of factionalism and
division. This collection of essays casts new light to show how the
boundaries between Marxism and anarchism have been more porous and
fruitful than is conventionally recognised. The volume includes
ground-breaking pieces on the history of socialism in the
twentieth-century.
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