Date: 	Sat, 14 Mar 1998 19:19:49 -0500
Subject: Re: biography as social history


On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 23:32:45 -0500  Ostrow/Kaneda wrote:

> Ken I do not know the work of  Murray
> Bookchin can you supply some details?

He has written at least a dozen books.  Mostly on the 
organization of society: scarcity, space, time, food, 
population, capitalism, socialism etc.  He was the first person, 
I believe, to coin the term "social ecology" which is very 
different from the deep ecology and ecofeminist stuff that is 
floating around these days.  He is a stalwart humanist 
concerned with freedom and happiness and he doesn't make 
many bones about it.  Some of the things he has written 
include Post-Scarcity Anarchism, The Ecology of Freedom, 
Toward an Ecological Society... He has a relatively new book 
out which I haven't read yet.  I really like his work - and his 
style is highly polemical if you like that kind of thing.

ken