Mark Bray is a political organizer and historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe. He is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House 2017), Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero 2013), The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and Human Rights in Spain and France, 1890-1910 (forthcoming), and the co-editor of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader (PM Press 2018). His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, Salon, Boston Review, Critical Quarterly, and numerous edited volumes.
Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader
SKU: 9781629635095
Author: Francisco Ferrer • Editors: Mark Bray and Robert H. Haworth
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629635095
Published: 11/2018
Format: Paperback
Size: 9 x 6
Page count: 352
Subjects: Anarchism/Education
Praise
“A thorough and balanced collection of the writings of the doyen of
myriad horizontal educational projects in Spain and more still across
the world. Equally welcome are the well-researched introduction and the
afterword that underline both the multiplicity of anarchist perspectives
on education and social transformation and the complexity of Ferrer’s
thinking.”
—Chris Ealham, author of Living Anarchism: Jose Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement
“This volume brings together for the first time a comprehensive
collection of Ferrer’s own writings, documenting the daily life and aims
of the Escuela Moderna, alongside reflections, often critical, by
contemporary anarchists and other radical thinkers. Together with the
editors’ thoughtful Introduction, the result is a fascinating
collection—essential reading for anyone keen to go beyond the image of
Ferrer the martyr of libertarian education and to understand the
perennial moral and political questions at the heart of any project of
education for freedom.”
—Judith Suissa, author of Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Perspective
“Bray and Haworth have here provided a great gift to the history of
liberatory education and to its possible social futures, as this book is
sure to become a definitive text on the origins and development of the
international Modern School movement.”
—Richard Kahn, Antioch University Los Angeles
“Part martyr, part visionary, Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School
Movement he created have continued to preoccupy educational reformers
and political activists despite or because of Ferrer’s execution by a
repressive Spanish government in 1909. Revealing Ferrer’s flaws, Mark
Bray and Robert Haworth nevertheless evoke a person and a period when
political visionaries and educational reformers promised and almost
succeeded in transforming civic life in Europe and the Americas.”
—Temma Kaplan, distinguished professor emerita, Rutgers University
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