The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism

The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism'The standard book on anarchism for the twenty first century. Written with brio, quiet insight and clarity' Carl Levy A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosophical and political movement is as

After expounding his Sufi philosophy of death and showing the importance of the contemplation of human mortality to the mystical way of self-purification

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and astonishing discoveries around the globe

premeditated project

adventurers

from field slaves to mill workers

not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century

a historian of science

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and infinite libraries

a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detail’ of history