Debating Anarchism

A History of Action, Ideas and Movements

Mike Finn (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter, UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
04 November 2021

Social & cultural history; History of ideas; Anarchism

Series: Debates in World History

This timely book introduces readers to anarchism’s relationship to broader history, offering not only a history of anarchism in the modern period, but a critical introduction to debates on anarchist history. Attention thus far has been biased towards intellectual history and key thinkers such as Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin, but these studies have neglected the social movements and spaces which have seen ‘anarchy in action’ and marginalised the role of women and voices beyond Europe and the United States.

Debating Anarchism offers a different perspective, engaging with women’s anarchist experiences and grounding recent historical work on anarchism in a global perspective. Interrogating anarchism as a concept, a movement and a social reality the author guides the reader through the origins of anarchism in the age of revolutions, assessing experiences of anarchy in Russia, Spain, India and beyond. Tracing the development of ‘the beautiful idea’ through the 20th century, Finn explores anarchism in the Cold War world through to postmodernity and the 21st century. This volume situates anarchism in the broader historiographies of the modern world, offering a unique starting point for students of history, politics and philosophy seeking to understand the abiding power of ‘the beautiful idea’ – a society without government.

By: Mike Finn (Senior Lecturer in History University of Exeter UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781350118119
ISBN 10: 1350118117
Series: Debates in World History
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 04 November 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Everywhere and Nowhere - The Problem with Anarchist Historiography Part I: Anarchism in an Age of Revolutions, 1840-1939 1. Anarchy is Order: The Origins of ‘The Beautiful Idea’, 1840-1872 2. Words vs. Deeds: Anarchism and Syndicalism Before the First World War, 1872-1914 3. European Anarchisms: Russia and Spain 4. Global Anarchisms: India, Japan and Beyond Part II: ‘The seeds beneath the snow’: Anarchism in the Age of the Superpowers 5. The Last Anarchists? Anarchism, Decolonisation, and Protest in the Cold War World, 1945-1989 Part III: Anarchist ‘turns’: Anarchism in the Age of Postmodernity Conclusion: Anarchism and History in a ‘second anarchist moment’

Mike Finn is Senior Lecturer in History at University of Exeter, UK, where he works on the history of anarchism and left politics. He was educated at Liverpool, Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard where he was a Kennedy Scholar, and is a past winner of the Palgrave/Times Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences writing prize.

Reviews for Debating Anarchism: A History of Action, Ideas and Movements

So skillful is Finn's historical synthesis that Debating Anarchism becomes a work original research in its own right. This book will undoubtedly become an essential introduction to the history of anarchist ideas and movements. * Matthew Adams, Lecturer in Politics, History and Communication, Loughborough University, UK *