These essays, while “philosophical” in the broad sense, are well-written and polemical attacks on current attitudes toward nature and our place in it. They are spirited and uncompromising. They also offer a positive vision of social and ecological liberation, which are closely linked for Bookchin.

 The second of our reprints of Murray Bookchin’s neglected or out-of-print works, this one constructs the philosophical foundation for the field that he single-handedly created: Social Ecology.

 As the ecological health of the planet grows worse, raising questions about the survival of the human (and other) species, people are looking for precisely the sort of answers Bookchin supplies.

 A clear and powerful refutation of the idea of “Green Capitalism.”