There's Michael Taylor's book on Anarchy and Cooperation and his The Possibility of Cooperation -- sort of a rational choice analytical anarchist approach to the subject that will drive most anarchists batty. Robert Paul Wolff's In Defense of Anarchy is in the same style but shorter and written in English.
>
> But, anarchists don't really much give a crap about
> this sort of thing, do
> they? I'd be interested and relieved to here
> otherwise. But, most of the
> peole with anarchist sympathies on this list seem to
> snarl about academia
> and theory.
>
One intelligent anarchist website that looks sympathetically at both left and right anarchism:
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/anarfaq.htm#part8
gives the following list of "anarchist" classics -- looking over them I see that the more theoretical of them are right wing anarchist, and not all of them (e.g. Nozick) are really anarchist at all. This supports K's theory that anarchists have not tried very hard to develop a theory of anarchism.
Mihail Bakunin. God and the State * Mikhail Bakunin. The Political Philosophy of Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin. Statism and Anarchy Bruce Benson. The Enterprise of Law: Justice without the State Alexander Berkman. The ABC of Anarchism Etienne de la Boetie. The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (also published as The Politics of Obedience: the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude) Burnett Bolloten. The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution Murray Bookchin. Post-Scarcity Anarchism Frank Brooks, ed. The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908) Roy Childs. Liberty Against Power Frank Chodorov. Fugitive Essays Noam Chomsky. American Power and the New Mandarins Noam Chomsky. The Chomsky Reader Tyler Cowen, ed. The Theory of Market Failure (also published as Public Goods and Market Failures) Douglas Davis and Charles Holt. Experimental Economics
Ronald Fraser. Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the
Spanish Civil War
* David Friedman. The Machinery of Freedom
William Godwin. The Anarchist Writings of William
Godwin
Emma Goldman. Anarchism and Other Essays
*# Daniel Guerin. Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
# Ulrike Heider. Anarchism: Left, Right, and Green
Hans-Hermann Hoppe. A Theory of Socialism and
Capitalism
Anthony de Jasay. Social Contract, Free Ride
Leonard Krimerman and Lewis Perry, eds. Patterns of
Anarchy
* Peter Kropotkin. The Essential Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin. Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution
* Carl Landauer. European Socialism: A History of
Ideas and Movements
Bruno Leoni. Freedom and the Law
Wendy McElroy. Freedom, Feminism, and the State
# Peter Marshall. Demanding the Impossible: A History
of Anarchism
James Martin. Men Against the State: The Expositors of
Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908
Gustave de Molinari. "The Production of Security"
Albert Jay Nock. Our Enemy the State
Albert Jay Nock. The State of the Union
Robert Nozick. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Franz Oppenheimer. The State
David Osterfeld. Freedom, Society, and the State : An
Investigation into the Possibility of Society without
Government
*# J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, eds.
Anarchism, Nomos vol.19
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. What is Property?
Murray Rothbard. Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against
Nature
Murray Rothbard. The Ethics of Liberty
* Murray Rothbard. For a New Liberty
Murray Rothbard. Power and Market
David Schmidtz. The Limits of Government: An Essay on
the Public Goods Argument
Lysander Spooner. The Lysander Spooner Reader
* Lysander Spooner. No Treason: The Constitution of No
Authority
Max Stirner. The Ego and Its Own
Morris and Linda Tannehill. The Market for Liberty
Henry David Thoreau. The Portable Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy on Civil Disobedience and Non-
Violence
Benjamin Tucker. Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy
to Write One
Gordon Tullock, ed. Further Explorations in the Theory
of Anarchy
Robert Paul Wolff. In Defence of Anarchism
# George Woodcock. Anarchism: A History of Libertarian
Ideas and Movements
# E.V. Zenker. Anarchism: A Criticism and History of
the Anarchist Theory
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