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Engaging nature : environmentalism and the political theory canon / Peter F. Cannavò and Joseph H. Lane, Jr., editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political ecology.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Environmentalism--Philosophy.
- Environmentalism.
- Philosophers--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 304 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for such political concepts as rights, citizenship, justice, democracy, the state, race, class, and gender. As the field has matured, scholars have begun to explore connections between Green Theory and such canonical political thinkers as Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, and Marx. The essays in Engaging Nature put important figures from the political theory canon in dialogue with current environmental political theory. This is the first comprehensive volume to bring the insights of Green Theory to bear in reinterpreting these canonical theorists. Individual essays cover such classical figures in Western thought as Aristotle, Hume, Rousseau, Mill, and Burke, but they also depart from the traditional canon to consider Mary Wolistonecraft, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt, and Confucius. Engaging and accessible, the essays also offer original and innovative interpretations that often challenge standard readings of these thinkers. In examining and explicating how these great thinkers of the past viewed the natural world and our relationship with nature, the essays also illuminate our current environmental predicament. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Plato / Sheryl D. Breen
- Aristotle / Ozguc Orhan
- Niccolo Machiavelli / Francisco Seijo
- Thomas Hobbes / John M. Meyer
- John Locke / Zev Trachtenberg
- David Hume / Andrew Valls
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Joseph H. Lane, Jr
- Edmund Burke / Harlan Wilson
- Mary Wollstonecraft / Barbara K. Seeber
- John Stuart Mill / Piers H.G. Stephens
- Karl Marx / Timothy W. Luke
- W.E.B. Du Bois / Kimberly K. Smith
- Martin Heidegger / W. Scott Cameron
- Hannah Arendt / Peter F. Cannavo
- Confucius / Joel Jay Kassiola.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262028059
- 0262028050
- 9780262526562
- 0262526565
- OCLC:
- 878501838
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