By Jimmy Klausen, James Martel
ISBN-10: 0739150340
ISBN-13: 9780739150344
ISBN-10: 0739150359
ISBN-13: 9780739150351
ISBN-10: 0739150367
ISBN-13: 9780739150368
How to not Be ruled explores the modern debates and questions touching on anarchism in our personal time. The authors tackle the political disasters of previous practices of anarchism, and the declare that anarchism is impracticable, via studying the anarchisms which have been theorized and practiced in the middle of those intended mess ups. The authors revive the opportunity of anarchism whilst they study it with a serious lens. instead of breaking with past anarchist practices, this quantity finds the principal values and strategies of anarchism that stay with us, practiced even within the impossible and 'impossible' contexts.
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Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 58. 34. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, 339. 35. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 251. 36. Stephen Jay Gould, Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (New York: Random House, 1997). 37. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, 57. 38. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 33. 39. Ibid. 40. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, 49. 41. Feyerabend, Against Method, 18–19. 42. , 16. 43. Feyerabend, Against Method, 8, emphasis in original.
Are even integrated into anarchism itself. “Anarchism is a world concept based upon a mechanical explanation of all phenomena,” writes Kropotkin. 45 Feyerabend clearly recognizes a gulf between Kropotkin’s anarchist politics in pursuit of freedom, on the one hand, and his epistemology, embracing “mechanical explanation,” on the other. Feyerabend expresses disappointment on this point and a desire to join the two. Feyerabend’s commitment to find an overarching unity between a political theory and a research method almost compels him to reject Popper’s views on knowledge.
23. Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (New York: Routledge, 1968 [1934]). 24. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. James Creed Meredith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952), 18. 25. See esp. Alessandro Ferrara, The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008). 26. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies. 27. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanavich, 1951). 28. Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, 3–4, 34–35.