Murray Bookchin

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Murray Bookchin
Born January 14, 1921
New York City, New York
Died July 30, 2006 (aged 85)
Burlington, Vermont
Influenced by Aristotle,[1] Spinoza,[1] Hegel,[1] Karl Marx,[1] Peter Kropotkin[1], Hans Jonas[2], Denis Diderot[3]

Murray Bookchin founded the social ecology movement within libertarian socialist and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books on politics, philosophy, history, urban affairs & ecology. Bookchin was a vocal advocate of the decentralisation as well as partial deindustrialization and deurbanization of society.

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Bookchin, Murray. The Ecology of Freedom. Oakland: AK Press, 2005. p.11
  2. [1] Small, Mike. ‘’Murray Bookchin: US political thinker whose ideas shaped the anti-globalisation movement’’. ‘’’The Guardian’’’ August 8, 2006
  3. Bookchin, Murray. The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1996. p.57-9

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