- Anarchism, Anarchism and anarchists, Authority, Democracy
**In Defense of Anarchism** is a 1970 book by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, in which the author defends philosophical anarchism. He argues that individual autonomy and state authority are mutually exclusive and that, as individual autonomy is inalienable, the moral legitimacy of the state collapses.
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- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Robert Paul Wolff
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 86
- Publisher
- University of California Press, HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, Harper and Row
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780520353916
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