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The vision of a stateless commonwealth of free and equal human beings has been a powerful force throughout history, attracting the allegiance of some of humankind's most ardent and generous spirits. Int his book, Richard Sonn traces the history of anarchism as doctrine and movement from its origins in the Age of Enlightenment down to the present day. Sonn not only reinterprets the thought of such important figures as Proudhon, Bakunin, and Kropotkin, but also explores the social basis of anarchism as a mass political movement, thus placing anarchist ideas in social and cultural context. In this timely study, Richard Sonn gives us both a history of anarchist ideas and a reevaluation of the place of anarchism in modern political though. -- From publisher's description.