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Engaging Nature : Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262325264
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Engaging NatureDDC classification:
  • 363.7001
LOC classification:
  • JA75.8 .E56 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How We Got Here -- 1 Plato: Private Property and Agriculture for the Commoners-Humans and the Natural World in The Republic -- 2 Aristotle: Phusis, Praxis, and the Good -- 3 Niccolò Machiavelli: Rethinking Decentralization's Role in Green Theory -- 4 Thomas Hobbes: Relating Nature andPolitics -- 5 John Locke: "This Habitable Earth of Ours" -- 6 David Hume: Justice and the Environment -- 7 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Disentangling of Green Paradoxes -- 8 Edmund Burke: The Nature of Politics -- 9 Mary Wollstonecraft: "Systemiz[ing] Oppression"-Feminism, Nature, and Animals -- 10 John Stuart Mill: The Greening of the Liberal Heritage -- 11 Karl Marx: Critique of Political Economy as Environmental Political Theory -- 12 W. E. B. Du Bois: Racial Inequality and Alienation from Nature -- 13 Martin Heidegger: Individual and Collective Responsibility -- 14 Hannah Arendt: Place, World, and Earthly Nature -- 15 Confucius: How Non-Western Political Theory Contributes to Understanding the Environmental Crisis -- Conclusion: The Western Political Theory Canon, Nature, and a Broader Dialogue -- Authors -- Index.
Summary: Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past--including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius--in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How We Got Here -- 1 Plato: Private Property and Agriculture for the Commoners-Humans and the Natural World in The Republic -- 2 Aristotle: Phusis, Praxis, and the Good -- 3 Niccolò Machiavelli: Rethinking Decentralization's Role in Green Theory -- 4 Thomas Hobbes: Relating Nature andPolitics -- 5 John Locke: "This Habitable Earth of Ours" -- 6 David Hume: Justice and the Environment -- 7 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Disentangling of Green Paradoxes -- 8 Edmund Burke: The Nature of Politics -- 9 Mary Wollstonecraft: "Systemiz[ing] Oppression"-Feminism, Nature, and Animals -- 10 John Stuart Mill: The Greening of the Liberal Heritage -- 11 Karl Marx: Critique of Political Economy as Environmental Political Theory -- 12 W. E. B. Du Bois: Racial Inequality and Alienation from Nature -- 13 Martin Heidegger: Individual and Collective Responsibility -- 14 Hannah Arendt: Place, World, and Earthly Nature -- 15 Confucius: How Non-Western Political Theory Contributes to Understanding the Environmental Crisis -- Conclusion: The Western Political Theory Canon, Nature, and a Broader Dialogue -- Authors -- Index.

Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past--including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius--in dialogue with current environmental political theory.

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