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History, Civilization, and Progress:
Outline for a Criticism of Modern Relativism
by Murray Bookchin
Rarely have the concepts that literally define the best of Western
culture--its notions of a meaningful History, a universal Civilization, and the
possibility of Progress--been called so radically into question as they are
today. In recent decades, both in the United States and abroad, the academy
and a subculture of self-styled postmodernist intellectuals have nourished an
entirely new ensemble of cultural conventions that stem from a corrosive
social, political, and moral relativism. This ensemble encompasses a crude
nominalism, pluralism, and skeptic... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
Note: This piece was printed in Alternative Forum, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall, 1991
INTELLIGENTSIA AND THE NEW INTELLECTUALS
By Murray Bookchin
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Editorial Introduction:
The following lecture was delivered as the opening address at the fourth continental Youth Greens conference that took place on the campus of Goddard College in Vermont on July 27,1990 The social theorist Murray Bookchin, whose work on ecology began with an article on the chemical additives in food in 1952, is a long-standing activist in the ecology movement and the author of several books, including The Ecology of Freedom, Remaking Society and The Philosophy of Social Ecology. In many way... (From : Anarchy Archives.)