The Philosophy of Social Ecology

What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology,  Murray Bookchin confronts these questions headon: invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity indiversity, in the service of ever exp