TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLaughlin,Paul
TI  - Mikhail Bakunin: the philosophical basis of his theory of anarchism 
SN  - 1892941414
AV  - HX914.7.B34 M35 2002eb
U1  - 335/.83 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Algora Pub.
KW  - Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich,
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - Anarchism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Socialism, Communism & Anarchism
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Law, Politics & Government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index; pt. 1. Bakunin's dialectic and the critique of speculation -- pt. 2. Bakunin's naturalism and the critique of theologism
N2  - McLaughlin is concerned not so much with an explication of Bakunin's anarchist position, as such, as with the basic philosophy which underpins it. He focuses on two central components: a negative dialectic, or revolutionary logic; and a naturalist ontology, a naturalistic account of the structure of being or reality. Bakunin scholarship, he notes, falls into two camps: Marxist and liberal. Both, he says, tend to be hostile. McLaughlin discredits one by one the analyses (published, usually, as part of a work on Marx et al.) by Francis Wheen ("schoolboy wit, idiocy of tone, poverty of content"), George Lichtheim ("completely misreads Bakunin") and Oxbridge scholar Aileen Kelly ("personality assassination, perverse, slanderous"), while upholding Eric Voegelin. Perhaps this book will spark a small revolution of its own. Scholars interested in Bakunin have had few resources available in English, and none of them, until now, presented a credible study of the man's philosophy
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