ABSTRACT
Murray Bookchin is a co-founder and former director of the Institute for Social Ecology in Rochester, Vermont and a (retired) professor at the School of Environmental Studies of Ramapo College, New Jersey. In recent decades he has published a large number of compilations and books in which subjects like anarchism, technology and the history of the city are recurring themes. His magnum opus is undoubtedly The Ecology of Freedom, published in 1982. It was applauded in the San Francisco Chronicle by the guru of the ‘counter-culture’, Theodore Roszak, as perhaps the most significant contribution to the contemporary environmental debate. With this book, Roszak wrote, Bookchin had joined the ranks of eminent American political philosophers which included not only Henry David Thoreau and Paul Goodman but also Lewis Mumford.
