The Routledge Handbook Of Anarchy And Anarchist Thought

✍ Scribed by Gary Chartier, Chad Van Schoelandt

• Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 479
• Series: Routledge Handbooks
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Handbook offers an authoritative, up-to-date introduction to the rich scholarly conversation about anarchy—about the possibility, dynamics, and appeal of social order without the state. Drawing on resources from philosophy, economics, law, history, politics, and religious studies, it is designed to deepen understanding of anarchy and the development of anarchist ideas at a time when those ideas have attracted increasing attention. The popular identification of anarchy with chaos makes sophisticated interpretations—which recognize anarchy as a kind of social order rather than an alternative to it—especially interesting. Strong, centralized governments have struggled to quell popular frustration even as doubts have continued to percolate about their legitimacy and long-term financial stability. Since the emergence of the modern state, concerns like these have driven scholars to wonder whether societies could flourish while abandoning monopolistic governance entirely. Standard treatments of political philosophy frequently assume the justifiability and desirability of states, focusing on such questions as, What is the best kind of state? and What laws and policies should states adopt?, without considering whether it is just or prudent for states to do anything at all. This Handbook encourages engagement with a provocative alternative that casts more conventional views in stark relief. Its 30 chapters, written specifically for this volume by an international team of leading scholars, are organized into four main parts:
I. Concept and Significance
II. Figures and Traditions
III. Legitimacy and Order
IV. Critique and Alternatives
In addition, a comprehensive index makes the volume easy to navigate and an annotated bibliography points readers to the most promising avenues of future research.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Endorsements......Page 2
Half Title......Page 4
Title Page......Page 6
Copyright Page......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Introduction......Page 20
PART I: Concept and Significance......Page 32
1. Anarchism, Anarchists, and Anarchy......Page 34
2. The Anarchist Landscape......Page 47
3. On the Distinction Between State and Anarchy......Page 58
4. Methodological Anarchism......Page 72
5. What Is the Point of Anarchism?......Page 95
PART II
Figures and Traditions......Page 100
6. Anarchism against Anarchy: The Classical Roots of Anarchism......Page 102
7. Kant on Anarchy......Page 118
8. Barbarians in the Agora: American Market Anarchism, 1945–2011......Page 131
9. Rights, Morality, and Egoism in Individualist Anarchism......Page 145
10. Transcending Leftist Politics: Situating Egoism within the Anarchist Project......Page 158
11. De Facto Monopolies and the Justification of the State......Page 171
12. Two Cheers for Rothbardianism......Page 182
13. Christian Anarchism......Page 206
PART III: Legitimacy and Order......Page 224
14. Anarchism and Political Obligation: An Introduction......Page 226
15. The Positive Political Economy of Analytical Anarchism......Page 241
16. Moral Parity between State and Non-state Actors......Page 254
17. Economic Pathologies of the State......Page 266
18. Hunting for Unicorns......Page 281
19. Social Norms and Social Order......Page 290
20. Anarchy and Law......Page 300
21. Anarchism, State, and Violence......Page 314
22. The Forecast for Anarchy......Page 328
PART IV: Critique and Alternatives......Page 344
23. Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Private Property......Page 346
24. The Right Anarchy: Capitalist or Socialist?......Page 361
25. Anarchist Approaches to Education......Page 379
26. An Anarchist Critique of Power Relations within Institutions......Page 384
27. Anarchism for an Ecological Crisis?......Page 400
28. States, Incarceration, and Organizational Structure: Towards a General Theory of Imprisonment......Page 412
29. The Problems of Central Planning in Military Technology......Page 425
30. Anarchy and Transhumanism......Page 435
Annotated Bibliography......Page 448
Index......Page 464

✦ Subjects

Anarchy, Anarchist Thought