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Anarchism and eugenics An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940
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Anarchism and eugenics [electronic resource] : An unlikely convergence, 1890-1940 / Richard Cleminson.
ISBN
1526124475
9781526124470
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (1 PDF (212 pages)).
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Summary
At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a 'scientific' doctrine that sought to eliminate 'dysgenics' and champion the 'fit' as a means of 'race' survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships. What explains this reception of eugenics by anarchism? How was eugenics mobilised by anarchists as part of their struggle against capitalism and the state? What were the consequences of this overlap for both anarchism and eugenics as transnational movements?
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Project MUSE - 2019 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2019 History.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 18, 2020
Series
Contemporary anarchist studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [180]-207) and index.
Contents
The 'paradox' of anarchism and eugenics
Science, revolution and progress : the constitutive terrain of anarchist eugenics
Early discourse on eugenics within transnational anarchism, 1890-1920
From neo-Malthusianism to eugenics as a 'revolutionary conquest', 1920-1937
Conclusion : anarchism, governmentality, eugenics.
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