The Impossible Community
Subtitle: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism
By: John P. Clark
Edition: 1st edition
Series: Contemporary Anarchist Studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-08-01
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781441185471
Copyright date: 2013
Description: *The Impossible Community* confronts a critical moment when social and ecological catastrophe loom, the Left seems unable to articulate a response, and the Right is monopolizing public debates. This book offers a reformulation of anarchist social and political theory to develop a communitarian anarchist solution.

It argues that a free and just social order requires a radical transformation of the modes of domination exercised through social ideology and institutional structures. Communitarian anarchism unites a universalist concern for social and ecological justice while recognizing the integrity and individuality of the person. In fact, anarchist principles of mutual aid and voluntary cooperation can already be seen in various contexts, from the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina to social movements in India.

This work offers both a theoretical framework and concrete case studies to show how contemporary anarchist practice continues a long tradition of successfully synthetizing personal and communal liberation. This significant contribution will appeal not only to students in anarchism and political theory, but also to activists and anyone interested in making the world a better place.

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Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Introduction: In search of the impossible community; label: 2
title: Critique of the Gotham Program: From libertarian socialism to communitarian anarchism
pagenum: 27; label: 3
title: The third concept of liberty: Theorizing the free community
pagenum: 53; label: 4
title: Against principalities and powers: Critique of domination versus liberalization of domination
pagenum: 93; label: 5
title: Anarchy and the dialectic of utopia: The place of no place
pagenum: 127; label: 6
title: The microecology of community: Toward a theory of grassroots organization
pagenum: 149; label: 7
title: Bridging the unbridgeable chasm: Personal transformation and social action in anarchist practice
pagenum: 169; label: 8
title: Disaster anarchism: Hurricane Katrina and the shock of recognition
pagenum: 193; label: 9
title: The common good: Sarvodaya and the Gandhian legacy
pagenum: 217; label: 10
title: Beyond the limits of the city: A communitarian anarchist critique of libertarian municipalism
pagenum: 247; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 291; title: Index
pagenum: 303