Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric ApproachThis book provides the most detailed and comprehensive examination to date of the impact of environmentalism upon contemporary political thought. It sets out to disentangle the various strands of Green political thought and explain their relationship to the major Western political traditions. Environmentalism and Political Theory represents the consolidation of a new field of political inquiry that is destined to become an increasingly important component of political studies and political reporting worldwide. An interdisciplinary study that builds bridges between environmental philosophy, ecological thought, and political inquiry, this book employs a range of new insights from environmental philosophy to outline a particular Green political perspective. |
Contents
The Development of Modern Ecopolitical Thought From Participation and Survival to Emancipation | 7 |
The Environmental Problematic As A Crisis Of Participation | 8 |
The Environmental Problematic As A Crisis Of Survival | 11 |
The Environmental Problematic As A Crisis Of Culture And Character And As An Opportunity For Emancipation | 17 |
The Emancipatory Critique Of Conservatism Liberalism And Orthodox Marxism | 21 |
The AnthropocentricEcocentric Cleavage within Emancipatory Thought | 26 |
Exploring the Environmental Spectrum From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism | 33 |
Resource Conservation | 35 |
The Egocentric Critique | 107 |
The Good Life Revisited | 114 |
Ecosocialism The PostMarxist Synthesis | 117 |
Farewell to Scientific Socialism and the Economic Growth Consensus | 120 |
The Problematic Role of the Working Class | 121 |
The New Internationalism | 123 |
The Meaning And Lesson Of Ecology According To Ecosocialism | 125 |
The Ecosocialist Agenda | 130 |
Human Welfare Ecology | 35 |
Preservationism | 37 |
Animal Liberation | 40 |
Ecocentrism | 43 |
Ecocentrism Explained and Defended | 47 |
Some Common Criticisms And Misunderstandings | 53 |
Three Varieties Of Ecocentrism | 58 |
Transpersonal Ecology | 59 |
Ecofeminism | 61 |
An Ecocentric Analysis of Green Political Thought | 71 |
The Ecocentric Challenge to Marxism | 73 |
The Theoretical Roots | 75 |
Orthodox EcoMarxism | 80 |
Humanist EcoMarxism | 85 |
Beyond Marxism | 92 |
The Failed Promise of Critical Theory | 95 |
The Legacy of Horkheimer Adorno and Marcuse | 98 |
Habermasian Revisions | 104 |
More Democracy Or More Bureaucracy? | 134 |
An Alternative Green Market Economy | 138 |
Ecoanarchism The NonMarxist Visionaries | 143 |
The Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin | 144 |
Bookchins Social Hierarchy Thesis | 146 |
Bookchins Evolutionary Stewardship Thesis | 152 |
Ecocommunalism | 158 |
Monasticism Revisited | 161 |
Bioregionalism | 165 |
Does Ecocentrism Demand Ecoanarchism? | 168 |
The Other Side of Decentralization Local Democracy and Human Scale | 171 |
The Ecoanarchist Model Of Autonomy As Selfmanagement | 174 |
Conclusion | 177 |
Documentation | 185 |
Bibliography | 235 |
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