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Index
Cover
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: In search of the impossible community
Free community as the concrete universal
In the midst of crisis
Grounds for hope
Anarchy, solidarity, and legitimacy
The universal particular and the dialectic of modernity
Contemporary anarchist theory: Bridging the gap
In defense of dialectic
The structure of this work
2 Critique of the Gotham Program: From libertarian socialism to communitarian anarchism
3 The third concept of liberty: Theorizing the free communityc
The senses of freedom
Abstract freedom
Freedom as self-determination
Agency and critical reason
Recognition and nondomination
Reconciling universality and particularity
The state and the problem of agency
A noncoercive state?
The kingdom of God was within Hegel
The free community
The community of communities
Politics and spirit
4 Against principalities and powers: Critique of domination versus liberalization of domination
The system of domination
Foundations of the critique of social domination
The radical critique of domination
Domination in contemporary liberal theory
Domination as arbitrary interference
Liberalizing economic and political domination
From real consent to possible contestation
Failures of the liberal theory of domination
The ideological collapse of republicanism
5 Anarchy and the dialectic of utopia: The place of no place
The origins of utopia
Utopia as domination
Utopia as elitism
Utopia as escapism
Utopia as critique
Utopia of desire
The presence of utopia
Hyper(topian) text
Utopia in history
The end of utopia
The return to nowhere
6 The microecology of community: Toward a theory of grassroots organization
The problem of political culture
The microecology of community
Toward a community of communities
The resurgence of the affinity group
The experience of base communities
Ecocommunity or barbarism?
7 Bridging the unbridgeable chasm: Personal transformation and social action in anarchist practice
Individual and society in anarchist thought
The political discourse of freedom and autonomy
Bookchin on classical individualist anarchism
Lifestyle anarchism as the new individualism
On consensus as disguised egoism
The role of affinity groups and primary communities
8 Disaster anarchism: Hurricane Katrina and the shock of recognition
Reclusian reflections on an unnatural disaster
The social ecology of disaster
A heritage of violence
Games of chance
A state of disaster
On a street named desire
Facing the future
The social crisis in New Orleans
The environmental crisis in New Orleans
Mutual aid and solidarity in New Orleans
Portraits of tragedy and hope
9 The common good: Sarvodaya and the Gandhian legacy
The Sarvodaya Movement in India
The roots of revolution
Gandhian anarchism
Gandhian antistatism
Satyagraha as revolutionary direct action
Swaraj and the structure of communal autonomy
The problem of the transition
Sarvodayan technology
The Sarvodaya solidarity economy
The Gandhian legacy
The Sarvodaya Shramadana movement in Sri Lanka
Awakening: The theoretical, ethical, and spiritual basis
The commonwealth of villages
Creating peace amid strife
Foreign aid
10 Beyond the limits of the city: A communitarian anarchist critique of libertarian municipalism
Democracy, ecology, and community
Citizenship and self-identity
The “agent of history”
The municipality as ground of social being
The social and the political
Paideia and civic virtue
The municipalist program
Beyond the fetishism of assemblies
Municipal economics
The confederative principle
Municipalizing nature?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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