Steven Best Libri

The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? features both academic and activist perspectives and offers powerful insights into this international organization and its position within the animal rights movement. Calling on sources as venerable as Thomas Aquinas and as current as the Patriot Act―and, in some cases, personal experience―the contributors explore the history of civil disobedience and sabotage, and examine the philosophical and cultural meanings of words like "terrorism," "democracy" and "freedom," in a book that ultimately challenges the values and assumptions that pervade our culture. Contributors include Robin Webb, Rod Coronado, Ingrid Newkirk, Paul Watson, Karen Davis, Bruce Friedrich, pattrice jones and others.

A collection of cartoons on subjects as diverse as the uneasy relationship between women, their men and sport; our affection, in the face of all the evidence, for fairytale and legend; and the proper fears held by frogs on the completion of the Channel Tunnel.

Two fascinating documentaries on one disc! In the first, Anarchism in America, the filmmakers take a road trip to map anarchism as a distinctly American tradition, interviewing a diverse cast of characters: from “ordinary” truckers and farmers to famous anarchists like Kenneth Rexroth and Ursula LeGuin. The second, The Free Voice of Labor, traces the history of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper of that name—publishing it’s final issue after 87 years—as told by it’s now elderly, but decidedly unbowed staff.Steven Fishler and Joel Sucher, since studying with Martin Scorsese in 1969, have been making Emmy- and Guggenheim award-winning nonfiction films that explore American social history.

Providing an important contribution to current controversies regarding history, social theory, politics, and the Foucault - Habermas debates, this work offers a detailed comparison of the transformative uses of history in Foucault and Habermas, using Marx as a modernist contrast. The book clearly illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of each thinker's theory for the productive analysis of history and society, relating the work of each to current debates over modern and postmodern theory.

In seinem neuen Buch „Totale Befreiung: Eine Revolution für das 21. Jahrhundert“ beschreibt Steven Best sehr anschaulich die tiefe Krise, in der sich Mensch und Natur befinden. Schonungslos und kritisch setzt er sich mit den wichtigsten Problemen der gegenwärtigen Tierrechtsbewegung, der veganen Bewegung sowie weiteren sozialen Strömungen auseinander. Best deckt dabei deren Defizite auf und argumentiert, dass sie ihre Schwächen nur überwinden können, wenn sie sich gegenseitig ergänzen und unterstützen, weshalb er auf ein Bündnis drängt, das breiter und tiefgreifender als alles bisher Dagewesene ist. Mit seiner entlarvenden Betrachtung des westlichen Konzepts von „Fortschritt“ regt Best zum Nach- und Umdenken an, wobei er ein erschütterndes Bild einer Welt malt, die ohne eine baldige Veränderung dem Untergang geweiht ist.