The Ecology of Freedom - The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

Murray Bookchin

AK Press

2005

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781904859260

“The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human.” With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope, its inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today’s globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.

Murray Bookchin, cofounder of the Institute for Social Ecology, has been an active voice in the ecology and anarchist movements for more than 40 years. The author of numerous books and articles, he lives in Burlington, Vermont.

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4 (Muito bom)

ecologia sem "rei da selva"

um dos livros mais densos que eu já li, tanto que demorei muito mais do que o normal dos últimos anos. e ainda muito do que esse livro diz deve ter passado batido pela minha leitura

apesar de eu ter gostado mais do livro focado em ecologia social, esse aborda muito mais assuntos e faz um traçado completo do surgimento da hierarquia em sociedades orgânicas até uma formação de uma teoria mais sólida sobre liberdade, justiça e felicidade projetadas no futuro.

aqui o meu quote favorito, que na verdade é do Hegel, sobre pensar a natureza e o conhecimento/subjetividade do ser humno como cumulativos de uma mesma evolução biológica

"the bud disappears in the bursting-forth of the blossom, and one might say that the former is refuted by the latter; similarly, when the fruit appears, the blossom is shown up in its turn as a false manifestation of the plant, and the fruit now emerges as the truth of it instead. these forms are not just distinguished from one another, they also supplant one another as mutually incompatible. yet at the same time their fluid nature makes them moments of an organic unity in which they not only do not conflict, but in which each is as necessary as the other; and this mutual necessity alone constitutes the life of the whole."