Affluence and freedom : an environmental history of political ideas / Pierre Charbonnier ; tranlasted by Andrew Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charbonnier, Pierre, author.

Contributor:

Brown, Andrew, translator.

EBSCOhost.

Standardized Title:

Abondance et liberté. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Political aspects.

Ecology.

Political ecology--History.

Political ecology.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages)

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Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 The Critique of Ecological Reason p. 7

The fabric of liberty p. 7

The other history: ecology and the labour question p. 11

An environmental history of ideas p. 14

Subsisting, dwelling, knowing p. 16

Autonomy and affluence p. 21

2 Sovereignty and Property: Political Philosophy and the Land p. 30

The political affordances of the land p. 30

Grotius: empire and possession p. 35

Locke: the improving citizen p. 42

3 Grain and the Market: The Order of Commerce and the Organic Economy in the Eighteenth Century p. 50

Good use of the land p. 50

The agrarian kingdom of the Physiocrats p. 52

The liberal pact: Adam Smith p. 58

Two types of growth p. 63

Fichte: the ubiquity of the moderns p. 66

4 The New Ecological Regime p. 72

From one liberalism to another p. 72

The paradoxes of autonomy: Guizot p. 75

The paradoxes of affluence: Jevons p. 80

Colonial extractions p. 85

Extraction-autonomy: Tocqueville p. 89

5 Industrial Democracy: From Proudhon to Durkheim p. 94

Revolutions and industry p. 94

Property and labour p. 95

Proudhon as critic of the liberal pact p. 100

The fraternal idiom p. 103

Durkheim: 'carbon sociology' p. 106

The political affordances of coal p. 113

6 The Technocratic Hypothesis: Saint-Simon and Veblen p. 118

Material flows and market arrangements p. 118

Saint-Simon: a new social art p. 121

The technological normativity of the moderns p. 125

Laying bare the productive schema p. 128

Veblen and the cult of efficiency p. 130

The engineer and property p. 134

7 Nature in a Market Society p. 142

Marx as a thinker of autonomy p. 142

Putting the forest to good use p. 145

Technology and agronomy p. 148

Conquering the globe p. 153

Karl Polanyi: protecting society, protecting nature p. 156

Disembedding p. 160

Socialism, liberalism, conservatism p. 163

8 The Great Acceleration and the Eclipse of Nature p. 172

Freedom from want p. 172

Emancipation and acceleration: Herbert Marcuse p. 175

Oil and atomic power: invisible energies p. 179

9 Risks and Limits: The End of Certainties p. 187

Alarms and controversies p. 187

The critique of development and political naturalism p. 190

Risk and the reinvention of autonomy p. 198

The impasse: between collapse and resilience p. 204

10 The End of Modern Exception and Political Ecology p. 209

Symmetrizations p. 209

Authority and composition p. 215

Under naturalism lies production p. 219

Unequal ecological exchange p. 224

Provincializing critique p. 229

A new conceptual cartography p. 234

11 Self-Protection of the Earth p. 237

Changing expectations of justice p. 237

Autonomy without affluence p. 244

Towards a new critical subject p. 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Charbonnier, Pierre. Affluence and freedom

ISBN:

9781509549184

1509549188

9781509543731

1509543732

Publisher Number:

40030631360

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