The rights of nature : a history of environmental ethics / Roderick Frazier Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Roderick.

Series:

History of American thought and culture.

History of American thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics--History.

Environmental ethics.

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 290 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended to the nonhuman world."A splendid book. Roderick Nash has written another classic. This exploration of a new dimension in environmental ethics is both illuminating and overdue."-Stewart Udall"His account makes history 'come alive.'"- Sierra "So smoothly written that one almost does not notice the breadth of scholarship that went into this original and important work of environmental history."-Philip Shabecoff, New York Times Book Review "Clarifying and challenging, this is an essential text for deep ecologists and ecophilosophers."-Stephanie Mills, Utne Reader

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Prologue: Ethical Extension and Radical Environmentalism

1. From Natural Rights to the Rights of Nature

2. Ideological Origins of American Environmentalism

3. Ecology Widens the Circle

4. The Greening of Religion

5. The Greening of Philosophy

6. Liberating Nature

Epilogue: Abolitionism, Environmentalism, and the Limits of American Liberalism

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-278) and index.

ISBN:

9786612424090

9781282424098

1282424092

9780299118433

0299118436

9780585081120

0585081123

OCLC:

44962029