num_pages: 200
description: What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on: invoking the ideas of mutualism self-organization and unity in diversity in the service of ever expanding freedom. Refreshingly polemical and deeply philosophical they take issue with technocratic and mechanistic ways of understanding and relating to and within nature. More importantly they develop a solid historically and politically based ethical foundation for social ecology the field that Bookchin himself created and that offers us hope in the midst of our climate catastrophe.
language: English
title: The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
publisher: AK Press