{"product_id":"2026200013032-secondhand-mikhail-bakunin-a-study-in-the-psychology-and-politics-of-utopianism","title":"Mikhail Bakunin: A Study In The Psychology And Politics Of Utopianism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in the history of radical thought ignite the imagination quite like Mikhail Bakunin — the towering, tempestuous father of modern anarchism whose life was a perpetual storm of revolution, exile, and uncompromising defiance. Aileen Kelly's Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology and Politics of Utopianism presents a penetrating and psychologically rich portrait of this nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary, charting his intellectual evolution from romantic idealist to the foremost champion of anarchist collectivism, while situating his turbulent personal history within the broader currents of European radical politics. Kelly argues with rigorous authority that Bakunin's utopianism was not merely a political programme but a deeply psychological compulsion — a restless, all-consuming drive rooted in his personality and his visceral rejection of all authority, whether Tsarist, Marxist, or bourgeois.\n\nPublished by Clarendon Press, Oxford, this work stands as one of the most intellectually serious and methodologically sophisticated studies of Bakunin in the English language, distinguished by Kelly's command of Russian sources and her ability to weave political theory with biographical narrative. Her prose is measured yet compelling, bringing scholarly precision to a subject that has too often attracted hagiography or caricature. The result is a biography that illuminates not only the man but the enduring, unsettling power of utopian thinking itself — leaving the reader to wonder whether Bakunin's vision of a world without masters was a noble dream, or simply the grandest expression of one man's magnificent refusal to be governed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203278053595,"sku":"2026200013032-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a8d81691-ea44-4760-afbc-724f27277321.png?v=1788147317","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013032-secondhand-mikhail-bakunin-a-study-in-the-psychology-and-politics-of-utopianism","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}