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Murray Bookchin (January 14 1921 – July 30 2006) was an American anarchist and libertarian socialist author orator historian and political theoretician. A pioneer in the ecology movement Bookchin initiated the critical theory of social ecology within anarchist libertarian socialist and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books on politics philosophy history and urban affairs as well as ecology.

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birth date
1921-01-14
birth place
New York City, New York
death date
2006-07-30
death place
Burlington Vermont
era
20th-century philosophy, Contemporary philosophy
individualised GND number
118513362
influenced by
Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Denis Diderot, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Hans Jonas, Peter Kropotkin, Frankfurt School
LCCN Id
n/50/042221
main interest
Ethics, Libertarian socialism, Sustainability, Conservation movement, Dialectic, Social stratification, Post-scarcity economy, History
notableIdea
Dialectical naturalism, Communalism (political philosophy), Social ecology, Libertarian municipalism
philosophicalSchool
Anarchist communism, Communalism (political philosophy), Social ecology, Libertarian municipalism

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