Transaction Books 1979 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0878550976.

ISBN10: 0878550976, ISBN13: 9780878550975, [publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages; Description: 294 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Anarchism 1 Kg.
[Galway, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1979]
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ISBN10: 0878550976, ISBN13: 9780878550975, [publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages; Description: 294 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Anarchism 1 Kg.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1979]
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Hardback. New. Anarchism-literally, a society without government-is less a political philosophy than it is a temperament. Anarchists are defiant people who seek to organize for the purpose of destroying organization. For its adherents, anarchism means a grand struggle against evil, a plea for the "new," a secular crusade against the debasement of self, a fight against the degradation of mankind that organized society seems to represent. Anarchism is anti-politics, anti-economics, anti-authoritarianism in all forms. Anarchism is a mood of perpetual rebellion. The decade of the sixties witnessed a revival in the anarchist temperament, which Perlin finds evident in such diverse efforts as the women's liberation movement, student demonstrations, civil rights marches, free schools, the "back to the land" movement, demands for birth control and other-usually controversial-causes and activities. This new anarchism had few conscious links with the old anarchism. It was instead a response to changed conditions in the social fabric of American and European life, a reflex to the structural, cultural and psychological tensions that made those years turbulent, strife-filled and rebellious. Perlin concludes that while a revolution was not made in the sixties, a revolutionary life-style became a possibility. The spokesmen for the marginal groups whose interests achieved a new kind of legitimacy during the sixties were anarchists or their ...

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Contemporary Anarchism. ISBN 0878550976 9780878550975 [GB]