Pioneers of Ecological Humanism.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Ecological Humanism: An Introduction -- Part 1: Lewis Mumford and Organic Humanism -- 1. The Radical Scholar -- 2. Lewis Mumford: The Formative Years -- 3. Technics and Civilization -- 4. The Culture of Cities -- 5. Western Culture and its Transformtion: The Rise of Mechanistic Philosophy -- 6. The Insurgence of Romanticism and Utilitarian Philosophy -- 7. Mumford's Organic Philosophy -- 8. The Renewal of Life -- Part 2: Rene Dubos and Ecological Humanism -- 9. Rene Dubos and the Celebration of Life -- 10. The Living World and Human Nature -- 11. Sociocultural Evolution and the Human Personality -- 12. The Ecology of Health and Disease -- 13. The Theology of Earth -- 14. Humanized Landscapes -- 15. The Wooing of the Earth -- 16. Science and Holism -- Part 3: The Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin -- 17. Bookchin's Life and Work -- 18. The Environmental Crisis and Eco-Anarchism -- 19. Toward an Ecological Society -- 20. The Concept of Social Ecology -- 21. The Deep Ecology Movement -- 22. Deep Ecology, Biocentrism and Misanthropy -- 23. Neo-Maltusianism and the Politics of Deep Ecology -- 24. The Philosophy of Social Ecology -- 25. In Defence of the Enlightenment -- Bibliography -- Index.

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