{"product_id":"toward-an-ecological-society-murray-bookchin-9781849354448","title":"Toward an Ecological Society","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Murray Bookchin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1849354448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849354448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Murray Bookchin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130412265727,"sku":"9781849354448","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_142f07b3-0bdb-47d1-b3e4-e21fbb99b0d1.jpg?v=1687469227","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/toward-an-ecological-society-murray-bookchin-9781849354448","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}