Abstract:This essay historicizes the concept of nature in French anarchist pedagogy around 1900. I argue that anarchist cosmology was not dualist in the sense that it did not neatly separate the natural from the cultural or social. Nature was rather understood as an ever-evolving realm that encompassed nonhuman and human entities. This example should encourage historical scholarship to look more deeply into what anthropologists sometimes call “naturalist ontology”. Instead of conceiving it as a fixed worldview, we shou… Show more
“…Probst illustrates this on the example of French-speaking anarchist educators and schools. 'Returning to nature' for them meant promoting a self-regulated, holistic life, unmolested by the old clerical repression-a new life in which freedom, equality, autonomy, and solidarity were inherent values (Probst 2023).…”
This Special Issue on ‘Images of Nature’ in the longue durée has its origins in a historical conference on ‘Nature’ at the University of Geneva in the summer of 2022 (6th Swiss History Days, 29 June–1 July 2022) [...]
“…Probst illustrates this on the example of French-speaking anarchist educators and schools. 'Returning to nature' for them meant promoting a self-regulated, holistic life, unmolested by the old clerical repression-a new life in which freedom, equality, autonomy, and solidarity were inherent values (Probst 2023).…”
This Special Issue on ‘Images of Nature’ in the longue durée has its origins in a historical conference on ‘Nature’ at the University of Geneva in the summer of 2022 (6th Swiss History Days, 29 June–1 July 2022) [...]
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