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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Equitable Commerce -- The Peaceful Revolutionist -- ''Notebook D'' -- True Civilization -- Narrative of Practical Experiments -- Ephemera and Miscellanea -- A. Chronology of Warren's Life -- B. American Individualist Anarchists of the Nineteenth Century -- C. American Utopias -- D. Josiah Warren: An Annotated Bibliography -- Notes -- Index

The universe in brief -- First philosophy : reality, truth, and knowledge -- Ontology -- Theory of truth -- Epistemology -- Externalism, realism, and objectivity -- The nature of knowledge and proof of the external world -- Axiology : goodness, beauty, and liberty -- Values as situations -- Ethics -- Freedom of the will and moral agency -- Moral values -- Aesthetics -- Political philosophy -- Squishy totalitarianism and the left/right spectrum -- The anarchist utopia that beckons like a babe

The Practical Anarchist brings to light the work of Josiah Warren, eccentric American genius. Devoting his life to showing the practicality of an astonishing ideal, Warren devoted equal industry to the question of how to make a pair of shoes and how to remake the social world into an individualist paradise. This will be the first chance for many readers to encounter WarrenGs writings, and in many cases their first publication since their original appearance in obscure, self-published periodicals, including The Peaceful Revolutionist (1833), the first American anarchist periodical. Moreover, they often appeared in a bizarre experimental typography. This volume presents, out of the welter of bewildering writings left by Warren, a reading text designed for todayGs readers and students. It seeks to convey the practical value of many of WarrenGs ideas and their continuing relevance.

Intro -- Extreme Virtue -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Emma's Passion (Commitment) -- 2. Voltairine de Cleyre Priestess of Pity and Vengeance (Self-Relfection) -- 3. Barry Goldwater Bastard Out of Arizona (Integrity) -- 4. Lame Deer Spiritual Adventurer (Connectedness) -- 5. Furious Purity: Malcolm's Truth -- Afterword -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

For American kids in the 1970s, the term "drugs" referred to more than chemical compounds or plant extracts, more than a disease or a relief. Drugs, particularly marijuana and psychedelics, had cultural and counter-cultural meaning; they were, for us, symbols of the fact that we were different sorts of people than our parents and principals and political leaders: more open-minded, as it were, and more adventurous. Drugs were aesthetic (they affected our music and design arts and our heads fundamentally) and they were political, signaling anti-authoritarianism or an entire rejection of "the establishment." The term 'drug culture' is a sensible representation of the scope of the symbolic and economic activity; the drug culture was our native land. It was a resistant ethos, with rituals and sacred texts (by Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, and Carlos Castaneda, for example), an underground world featuring, let's say, a third of the American population. We staked way too much of our lives and identities on substance abuse, I admit, gave drugs a symbolic weight that they cannot and really should not bear. But the power of the drug culture was in large measure derived from the sheer fact of illegality. In being part of it, each of us was a criminal, and we were all criminals together. That what we were doing was illegal is part of what made it seem, for a time, like a form of resistance.

Narrative is one of many strategies for making texts or coming to understand the world. This paper attempts to restore narrative to that status: as one mode of writing or telling among others. The main example developed is the contrast between blues ballads such as "Frankie and Johnny," which tell a story, and traditional or modular blues songs, which do not.

Intro -- Exquisite Rebel -- Contents -- Foreword by Candace Falk -- Acknowledgments -- I. Biographical Essays: Three Views of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Priestess of Pity and Vengeance" by Crispin Sartwell -- The Exquisite Rebel: The Anarchist Life of Voltairine de Cleyre" by Sharon Presley -- Emma Goldman's "Voltairine de Cleyre" A Moving but Flawed Tribute" by Sharon Presley -- Voltairine De Cleyre" by Emma Goldman -- 2. Loving Freedom: Anarchism without Adjectives -- Introduction by Sharon Presley -- Why I Am An Anarchist -- Anarchism -- Events Are the True Schoolmasters -- Anarchism and American Traditions -- A Correction -- 3. Wild Freedom: A Passion for Liberty and Justice -- Introduction by Sharon Presley -- The Dominant Idea -- Crime and Punishment -- In Defense of Emma Goldman -- 4. Neither Gods nor Superstitions: Freethought and Religion -- Introduction by Sharon Presley -- The Economic Tendency of Freethought -- Secular Education -- 5. No Authority but Oneself: The Anarchist Feminist Philosophy of Autonomy and Freedom -- Introduction by Sharon Presley -- Those Who Marry Do Ill -- The Case of Woman Versus Orthodoxy -- The Woman Question -- Sex Slavery -- The Political Equality of Women -- 6. Not Another Brick in the Wall: Nonauthoritarian Education -- Introduction by Crispin Sartwell and Sharon Presley -- Modern Educational Reform -- 7. Breaking the Chains: Changing Society through Direct Action -- Introduction by Crispin Sartwell -- Direct Action -- The Eleventh of November, 1887 -- Our Present Attitude -- McKinley's Assassination: From the Anarchist Standpoint -- 8. The Political Is the Personal: Anarchist Esthetics -- Introduction by Crispin Sartwell -- Literature the Mirror of Man -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

The edited collection Rorty and Beyond assesses and moves beyond Rorty's legacy, bringing together leading international philosophers. The collection covers diverse territory, from his views about what we may hope for to his personal character, and everything in between.