Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism

by David Weir

Book Overview

Anarchism is generally understood as a failed ideology, a political philosophy that once may have had many followers but today attracts only cranks and eccentrics. This book argues that the decline of political anarchism is only half the story; the other half is a tale of widespread cultural success.

David Weir develops this thesis in several ways. He begins by considering the place of culture in the political thought of the classical anarchist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558490841
• ISBN13: 9781558490840
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher