Book description
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for…
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1 author picked Two Cheers for Anarchism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The polymathic anthropologist and political scientist James C Scott, who died this year, specialized in big, brilliant tomes. (I would have included here both Against the Grain and Seeing Like a State, only I read them years ago. Two of the best works of non-fiction I have ever encountered in any genre.) Two Cheers for Anarchism (2012) is a mere slip of a thing - 140 pages - but it's as rich, funny, serious, and mind-altering as its big siblings.
Scott was not an anarchist - but this short and endlessly thought-provoking "squint at the world through an anarchist…
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