Routledge The Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought: Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

Product Description This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin’s anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, insanity, degeneration, and hygiene were for him not metaphors but rather key political concerns. It goes on to discuss how for Kropotkin's bio-political anarchism, the state, capitalism, and revolution were medical concerns whose effects on the individual and society were measurable by social statistics and explainable by bio-social-medical knowledge. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin’s anarchism. About the Author Richard Morgan completed his doctorate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.