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"In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical social science. He achieves this by grounding it within a metaphysic of "dialectical naturalism" or "evolutionary realism"--a tradition long ignored by academic philosophy. After reviewing the anthropological background of this worldview--the Greeks and the Enlightenment--Morris explores two essential themes. First, he critically assesses the main forms of dialectical naturalism, including Darwin's evolutionary theory, Marx's historical materialism, and the hylo-realism of the philosopher-scientist Mario Bunge. Second, he offers a strong plea to retain the dual heritage of anthropology as a historical science that combines both humanism and naturalism. A powerful philosophical manifesto, the book cogently upholds dialectical naturalism as the most grounding philosophy for anthropology and the social sciences."--

Intro -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CLR JAMES, 1909-1989 -- BOOKS ABOUT GREENS -- THE IGNOBLE ART -- TOWARDS A TRANSPERSONAL ECOLOGY -- A CRITIQUE OF ECOFEMINISM -- MARY DALY AND HER CRITICS -- CRITICAL REALISM: MARX AND THE MARKET UNITED? -- ON MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -- A CRITIQUE OF LIBERAL SOCIAL THEORY -- THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EXCHANGE -- THE NATURE OF ECOLOGY -- RAJNEESH: THE GOD THAT FAILED -- A NEW WORLD ORDER OR CAPITALISM REVAMPED -- GUSTAVE COURBET, 1819-1877 -- GUILD SOCIALISM RESTATED YET AGAIN -- THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT -- THE ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW -- THE GREEN REVOLUTION -- THE SHINING PATH -- CHRISTIANARCHY: MYSTICAL ANARCHISM, OR JUST PLAIN MYSTICISM? -- COLONIZATIONS -- FUNDAMENTALISM -- TOM PAINE-THE RADICAL LIBERAL -- THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUAL -- IN DEFENCE OF LITERACY -- UTOPIA IN THE AMAZON -- TAGORE AND NATIONALISM -- AMERICAN CIVILIZATION -- TOM PAINE-THE MAN OF REASON -- RUDOLF BAHRO: GREEN VISIONARY OR ECO-FASCIST? -- BEWARE OF GURUS -- PROUDHON AND ANARCHISM -- A NOTE ON THE ANARCHISTS OF ISLAM -- DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE, 1999 -- RECLUS, KROPOTKIN AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY -- GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP -- WEBER AND THE ANARCHISTS -- UTOPIAN VISIONS -- MYTHS OF MODERN INDIVIDUALISM -- BEYOND BOUNDARIES -- AGRARIAN SOCIALISM -- BEYOND GLOBAL CAPITALISM -- EQUALITY AND THE CAPTIVE STATE -- WAS NIETZSCHE AN ANARCHIST? -- IN DEFENCE OF MICHAEL BAKUNIN -- EARTH DEMOCRACY -- THE POLITICS OF THE ANARCHIST FEDERATION -- ISLAM AND ANARCHISM -- POSTSTRUCTURALIST ANARCHISM -- BAKUNIN: THE CREATIVE PASSION -- SACCO AND VANZETTI -- THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE -- FLORES MAGÓN AND THE ANARCHIST VISION OF FREEDOM -- ESOTERICISM: THE RELIGION OF EMPIRE -- KRISHNAMURTI AND ANARCHISM -- NAOMI KLEIN AND DISASTER CAPITALISM -- ECOLOGY AND CAPITALISM -- ECO-STATE SOCIALISM: THE GREEN PARTY MANIFESTO.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Ecological Humanism: An Introduction -- Part 1: Lewis Mumford and Organic Humanism -- 1. The Radical Scholar -- 2. Lewis Mumford: The Formative Years -- 3. Technics and Civilization -- 4. The Culture of Cities -- 5. Western Culture and its Transformtion: The Rise of Mechanistic Philosophy -- 6. The Insurgence of Romanticism and Utilitarian Philosophy -- 7. Mumford's Organic Philosophy -- 8. The Renewal of Life -- Part 2: Rene Dubos and Ecological Humanism -- 9. Rene Dubos and the Celebration of Life -- 10. The Living World and Human Nature -- 11. Sociocultural Evolution and the Human Personality -- 12. The Ecology of Health and Disease -- 13. The Theology of Earth -- 14. Humanized Landscapes -- 15. The Wooing of the Earth -- 16. Science and Holism -- Part 3: The Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin -- 17. Bookchin's Life and Work -- 18. The Environmental Crisis and Eco-Anarchism -- 19. Toward an Ecological Society -- 20. The Concept of Social Ecology -- 21. The Deep Ecology Movement -- 22. Deep Ecology, Biocentrism and Misanthropy -- 23. Neo-Maltusianism and the Politics of Deep Ecology -- 24. The Philosophy of Social Ecology -- 25. In Defence of the Enlightenment -- Bibliography -- Index.

Brian Morris is professor emeritus of anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London. He is the author of The Anarchist Geographer: An Introduction to the Life of Peter Kropotkin; Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom; Ecology and Anarchism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Thought; Kropotkin: The Politics of Community. Peter Marshall is a philosopher, historian, biographer, travel writer, and poet. He has written 15 highly acclaimed books, including the landmark history of anarchism Demanding the Impossible. His circumnavigation of Africa was made into a six-part TV series and his voyage around Ir

Throughout history, Kropotkin argued, "sorcerers, prophets, priests and heads of military organizations" have endeavoured to establish their power and authority over the common people, and people have always resisted. Thus in a sense, Kropotkin concluded, govern mentalists and the common people as anarchists, have co-existed throughout Human history

1. Introduction -- 2. Greek Philosophy and Concepts of the Psyche -- 3. Buddhism and the Doctrine of No Soul (Anatta) -- 4. The Hindu Conception of the Self -- 5. Taoism, Confucianism and the Chinese Self -- 6. African Philosophy and Conceptions of the Person -- 7. People as Social Beings: Conceptions of the Person in Oceania and Melanesia -- 8. Feminist Philosophy and the Theory of the Self -- 9. Conclusions