Impossible Community

Cover......Page 1
HalfTitle......Page 2
Series......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Introduction:......Page 12
Free community as the concrete universal......Page 13
In the midst of crisis......Page 17
Grounds for hope......Page 19
Anarchy, solidarity, and legitimacy......Page 22
The universal particular and the dialectic of modernity......Page 24
Contemporary anarchist theory: Bridging the gap......Page 27
In defense of dialectic......Page 32
The structure of this work......Page 34
2 Critique of the Gotham Program:\r\r......Page 38
The senses of freedom......Page 64
Abstract freedom......Page 73
Freedom as self-determination......Page 74
Agency and critical reason......Page 77
Recognition and nondomination......Page 79
Reconciling universality and particularity......Page 81
The state and the problem of agency......Page 82
A noncoercive state?......Page 84
The kingdom of God was within Hegel......Page 87
The free community......Page 89
The community of communities......Page 92
Politics and spirit......Page 97
The system of domination......Page 104
Domination in contemporary liberal theory......Page 116
5 Anarchy and the dialectic of utopia:\r......Page 138
The origins of utopia......Page 139
Utopia as domination......Page 142
Utopia as elitism......Page 143
Utopia as escapism......Page 145
Utopia as critique......Page 146
Utopia of desire......Page 147
The presence of utopia......Page 151
Hyper(topian) text......Page 153
Utopia in history......Page 155
The end of utopia......Page 157
The return to nowhere......Page 159
The problem of political culture......Page 160
The microecology of community......Page 166
Toward a community of communities......Page 168
The resurgence of the affinity group......Page 171
The experience of base communities......Page 176
Ecocommunity or barbarism?......Page 177
7 Bridging the unbridgeable chasm:\r......Page 180
Individual and society in anarchist thought......Page 183
The political discourse of freedom and autonomy......Page 186
Bookchin on classical individualist anarchism......Page 190
Lifestyle anarchism as the new individualism......Page 193
On consensus as disguised egoism......Page 197
The role of affinity groups and primary communities......Page 199
8 Disaster anarchism:\r......Page 204
Reclusian reflections on an unnatural disaster......Page 205
Facing the future......Page 216
The Sarvodaya Movement in India......Page 228
The Sarvodaya Shramadana movement in Sri Lanka......Page 247
10 Beyond the limits of the city:\r......Page 258
Democracy, ecology, and community......Page 260
Citizenship and self-identity......Page 263
The “agent of history”......Page 267
The municipality as ground of social being......Page 269
The social and the political......Page 272
Paideia and civic virtue......Page 275
The municipalist program......Page 278
Beyond the fetishism of assemblies......Page 282
Municipal economics......Page 291
The confederative principle......Page 295
Municipalizing nature?......Page 298
Conclusion......Page 300
Bibliography......Page 302
Index......Page 314