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Main currents in western environmental thought / Peter Hay.
LIBRA GE195 .H39 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hay, P. R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmentalism--Philosophy.
- Environmentalism.
- Ecology--Philosophy.
- Ecology.
- Green movement.
- Physical Description:
- x, 400 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 The Ecological Impulse 1
- What inspires a 'green' sympathy? 1
- Romanticism: the first broadcast expression of an 'ecological impulse' 4
- Maintaining space for other life: 'wilderness' preservation 11
- 'Wilderness' and the present-day environment movement 16
- Some problems, including the question of the 'construction' of nature 18
- 2 Ecophilosophy 26
- Taking shape in the 1970s 26
- Taxonomies of environmental thought 31
- Animal liberation/animal rights 36
- Deep ecology 41
- Some environmental axiologies 48
- Anthropocentrism makes a comeback 57
- Some problems: meanwhile, in the real world ... 61
- 3 Ecofeminism 72
- Patriarchal dualisms 72
- Nature and gender 75
- Feminism and ecofeminism 81
- An ethic of care 84
- Some problems, including the tenacity of essentialism 87
- 4 Religion, Spirituality and the Green Movement 94
- Religion, spirituality, green ambiguity 94
- Buddhism, Taoism, and neo-paganism 94
- Christianity and ecological values: Lynn White and his critics 100
- Christian stewardship 106
- Panentheism and the reinterpretation of 'creation' 108
- Some problems: 'flaky spirituality' in a materialist age 112
- 5 Green Critiques of Science and Knowledge 120
- The green critique of mechanistic science 120
- The 'new physics' in environmental thought 129
- Ecology: the 'subversive science'? 131
- Gaia 136
- Alternative 'ways of knowing': the ecofeminist critique of science 139
- Alternative 'ways of knowing': green phenomenology 142
- Some problems: old or new science? 145
- 6 Reclaiming Place: Seeking an Authentic Ground for Being 153
- A literature of place 153
- The commodification of space 155
- Phenomenology and the search for authentic place 156
- Place and 'authentic being': the Heideggerian legacy 159
- Non-phenomenological theories of place in environmental thought 161
- Authentic place and communal vitality: an essential link? 164
- Some problems: Heidegger and the Nazi taint; the claim for the essentiality of 'nature' 166
- 7 Green Political Thought: The Authoritarian and Conservative Traditions 173
- The authoritarian tradition in environmental thought: the 'tragedy of the commons' 173
- Environmentalism and the conservative political tradition 179
- Nature and fascism 182
- Some problems: constructing cases from green ephemera 185
- 8 Environmental Liberalisms: Green Thought Meets the Dismal Science 194
- Environmentalism and the liberal rights tradition 194
- Environment, economy: first principles in conflict? 201
- 'Classical' environmentalist responses: the critique of economic growth 204
- Measures of human wellbeing: beyond GNP 210
- All hail 'sustainable development' 212
- Protecting environmental amenity through market-based mechanisms 219
- Ecological modernisation 228
- Precaution 230
- Ecological economics/alternative economics 233
- Some problems: the tenacity of private desires 242
- 9 Green Political Thought: The Socialist Traditions 255
- Democratic socialism and the environmentalist critique 255
- Marxist hostility to environmentalism 259
- Marxist co-option of environmentalism 261
- Marxist
- green syntheses 272
- Classical anarchism and the environmentalist critique 277
- The 'scale' variable: 'small is beautiful' and the critique of urbanism 282
- Bioregionalism 285
- Murray Bookchin and 'social ecology' 288
- Some problems: hitching a ride on a falling star? 292
- 10 Seeking Homo Ecologicus: Ecology, Democracy, Postmodernism 302
- Critiquing 'actually existing democracy' 303
- Toward an ecologically informed democracy 310
- Environmentalism meets postmodernism: a difficult synergy? 321
- Some problems: 'governmentality' vs ecologically constituted democracy 329
- Thoughts by Way of Conclusion: The Tenacity of Environmentalism 340.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-388) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253340535
- 0253215110
- OCLC:
- 48223278
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