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George Woodcock: the ghostwriter of anarchism

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posted on 2015-06-15, 13:22 authored by Sureyyya Evren, Ruth KinnaRuth Kinna
In ordinary language, a ghost writer is someone who stands behind or writes on behalf of a named author. In dubbing George Woodcock the ghost writer of anarchism we instead want to suggest that Woodcock identifi ed anarchism’s ‘essence’ or, as Stirner has it, ‘the spirit that walks in everything’.2 Aft er considering the evolution of Anarchism in the context of Woodcock’s political activism we discuss Woodcock’s contribution to the construction of the anarchist canon and his treatment of anarchism’s ‘essence’.

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  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Politics and International Studies

Published in

Anarchist Studies

Volume

23

Issue

1

Pages

46 - 62

Citation

EVREN, S. and KINNA, R., 2015. George Woodcock: the ghostwriter of anarchism. Anarchist Studies, 23 (1), pp. 46 - 62.

Publisher

© Lawrence and Wishart

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Anarchist Studies [© Lawrence and Wishart].

ISSN

0967-3393

Language

  • en

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