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Evolution and Environment

Peter Kropotkin

Edited by George Woodcock
Kropotkin the geographer had a social and political concern that transformed his interest in science into a larger ecological concern. He upheld the instinct of individuals to support one another, and acknowledged environmental influences on mutation and evolution. Whereas arguments at the time based all change on the drive for survival, Kropotkin's insight, now acknowledged by ecologists, insisted on the selective pressure of the environment.

This volume comprises seven essays on evolution, written between 1910 and 1915, and never before published. Sure to become a key text in the evolutionary controversy.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Modern Science and Anarchism Preface by George Woodcock
1. The Origin of Anarchism
II. The Intellectual Movement of the Eighteenth Century
III. The Reaction at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
IV. Comtes Positive Philosophy
V. The Awakening in the Years 1856-1862
VI. Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy
VII. The Function of Law in Society
VIII. Place of Anarchism in Modern Society
IX. The Anarchist Ideal and the Preceding Revolutions
X. Anarchism
XI. A Few Conclusions of Anarchism
XII. The Means of Action
XIII. Conclusion

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF PETER KROPOTKIN
POLITICS/PHILOSOPHY

262 pages

Paperback ISBN: 1-895431-44-1 $24.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-895431-45-X $53.99
ISSN: 1188-5807

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