Tag: Social Contract

Reading and Riffing on Murray Bookchin’s “The Ecology of Freedom”

Zooming out from the horror show of the upcoming presidential election, I decided to do some thinking with Bookchin about social contracts, participatory vs representative forms of democracy, and direct action as permanent revolution.

April 15, 2020
Experiments in Political Theology and Dialogical Blogging

The first clause in the title of this post is the subtitle of Simon Critchley‘s newest book, The Faith of the Faithless (2012). Critchley is a deep ethical thinker who had until a week ago managed to fly under my radar. This isn’t all that surprising, since the admittedly still diffuse research methodology of my…

August 15, 2012

Reading and Riffing on Murray Bookchin’s “The Ecology of Freedom”