The Philosophy of Social Ecology
Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

The Philosophy of Social Ecology was a dense but valuable read. Bookchin’s central premise is that our social and ecological ills that we face as humans, whether that be climate change, a loss of personal connection with your neighbor, rising mental illness, or corrupt politics, all stem from one co......more

To paraphrase Chomsky, when someone says “dialectics” I have no idea what they’re talking about. This was a slog of mostly unanalyzable statements and isn’t very didactic in offer improvements for how we can better interface with ecology. And then there’s all the Hegelian nonsense, like LET THE MAN......more

A unique perspective on humanity’s place within the natural world and creating a philosophical foundation for an ethics based on ecology. It felt like Bookchin is the latest iteration of leftist ideologies built off of Hegel’s dialectics but did a lot to address the shortcomings of Marx while also d......more

Why Hegel??? On gods I don't understand the fascination with philosophy that so few can understand. He does say in the footnotes at the end he's not a Hegelian, as he doesn't buy into the Geist part, but is a dialectician. I suppose there is something to how opposites shape each other, but reading t......more

Bookchin has found a way to mesh ecological ethics into a purely Western tradition. The modern American environmental/ecological movement has applied chunks of Eastern and Quasi-Eastern spirituality into the philosophy where it doesn't fit. He claims that it is due to intellectual laziness. I would......more