Making Sense of Anarchism

Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by the principle that someone else's rationality is not an empirical finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that question as it investigates the ideas and action of one of the most prominent and underrated anarchists of all times: the Italian, Errico Malatesta.

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DAVIDE TURCATO is Italian and lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is a computational linguist with an interest in history. He has published several articles on Errico Malatesta and Italian anarchism, and he is the editor of Malatesta's collected works, a ten-volume project currently under way in Italy.

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List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Anarchism, a Simple and Odd Business? The First International: A Lasting Heritage An 'Anarchist Rarity' Reappears, 1889 A Short-Lived, Momentous Periodical, 188990 Opaque Insurrectionary Trials, 189092 Open-Ended Popular Movements, 189294 Patient Work in the Light of Day, 189498 From the Other Side of the Atlantic Ocean, 18991900 Malatesta's Anarchism: A Charitable Interpretation Conclusion: A Complex, Rational Business References