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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Anarchism and Political Modernity looks at the place of 'classical anarchism' in the postmodern political discourse, claiming that anarchism presents a vision of political postmodernity. The book seeks to foster a better understanding of why and how anarchism is growing in the present. To do so, it first looks at its origins and history, offering a different view from the two traditions that characterize modern political theory: socialism and liberalism. Such an examination leads to a better understanding of how anarchism connects with newer political trends and why it is a powerful force in contemporary social and political movements. This new volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series offers a novel philosophical engagement with anarchism and contests a number of positions established in postanarchist theory. Its new approach makes a valuable contribution to an established debate about anarchism and political theory. It offers a new perspective on the emerging area of anarchist studies that will be of interest to students and theorists in political theory and anarchist studies.

Anarchist philosophy has often played and continues to play a crucial role in interventions in working‐class and labor movements. Anarchist philosophy influenced real‐world struggles and touched the lives of real, flesh‐and‐blood workers, especially those belonging to the industrial, immigrant working classes of late nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century America. Too often the writings, which were disseminated to, and hungrily consumed by, these workers are dismissed as "propaganda." However, insofar as they articulate and define political, economic, and social concepts; subject political, economic, and social institutions to trenchant critique against clear and well‐defined normative standards; offer logical justifications of their own positions; and advance positive alternative proposals, why should these writings not be regarded as philosophical texts and analyzed accordingly? Obviously they should, and the fact that they have been so long ignored by political philosophers, historians, and other scholars reflects academic prejudice rather than the intellectual and philosophical merit of the writings. This article is a preliminary step toward giving anarchist philosophy the hearing it so richly deserves.

Anarchism and philosophy : a critical introduction / Nathan Jun -- Anarchism and aesthetics / Allan Antliff -- Anarchism and liberalism / Bruce Buchan -- Anarchism and markets / Kevin Carson -- Anarchism and religion / Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Lara Apps -- Anarchism and pacifism / Andrew Fiala Anarchism and moral philosophy / Benjamin Franks -- Anarchism and nationalism / Uri Gordon -- Anarchism and sexuality / Sandra Jeppesen and Holly Nazar -- Anarchism and feminism / Ruth Kinna -- Anarchism and libertarianism / Roderick T. Long -- Anarchism, poststructuralism, and contemporary European philosophy / Todd May -- Anarchism and analytic philosophy / Paul McLaughlin -- Anarchism and environmental philosophy / Brian Morris -- Anarchism and psychoanalysis / Saul Newman -- Anarchism and nineteenth-century European philosophy / Pablo Abufom Silva and Alex Prichard -- Anarchism and nineteenth-century American political thought / Crispin Sartwell -- Anarchism and phenomenology / Joeri Schrijvers -- Anarchism and Marxism / Lucien van der Walt -- Anarchism and existentialism / Shane Wahl