Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow
Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
320 pages
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6 x 9
From William Morris to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British history. In Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition.
The book succeeds as both a cultural history of left-libertarianism in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and John Cowper Powys to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout Britain and the rest of the world.
The book succeeds as both a cultural history of left-libertarianism in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and John Cowper Powys to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout Britain and the rest of the world.
The Journal of William Morris Studies
"Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow is an impressive achievement for its rigorous scholarship across a wide range of sources, for collating this diverse material in a cogent and systematic narrative-cum-argument, and for elucidating it with clarity and flair… It is a book that needed to be written and now deserves to be read."
-- The Journal of William Morris Studies
Choice
"The book effectively enriches understanding of what turns out to be, perhaps surprisingly, an important part of British thought."
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Anarchism and libertarian socialism in Britain: William Morris
and the background, 1880-1920
3 Edward Carpenter
4 Oscar Wilde
5 John Cowper Powys I: His life-philosophy and individualist
anarchism
6 The Spanish Revolution and Civil War -- and the case of George Orwell
7 John Cowper Powys II: The impact of Emma Goldman and Spain
8 Herbert Road
9 War and pacifism
10 Aldous Huxley
11 Alex Comfort
12 Nuclear disarmament, the New Left -- and the case of E.P. Thompson
13 Christopher Pallis
14 Colin Ward
15 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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