The Politics of Nature: Explorations in Green Political TheoryAndrew Dobson, Paul Lucardie This book presents a uniquely comprehensive and balanced survey of current green political ideas. It analyses the ability of these ideas to provide plausible answers to fundamental problems in political theory, concerning justice and democracy, individual rights and freedom, human nature and gender. The authors, who come from a range of different disciplines, explore the relationship between green ideas and other traditions including liberalism, anarchism, feminism and Christianity. |
Contents
THE IDEA OF NATURE AND THE NATURE | 3 |
WHY WOULD EGOCENTRISTS BECOME | 21 |
the state and democracy | 37 |
GREEN DEMOCRACY? | 63 |
CAN LIBERAL DEMOCRACY SURVIVE | 81 |
economics and welfare | 103 |
ECONOMIC THEORIES AND THE NECESSARY | 118 |
the boundaries | 159 |
ECOFEMINISM AND THE POLITICS OF | 177 |
CRITICAL THEORY AND GREEN POLITICS | 190 |
GREEN BELIEFS AND RELIGION | 210 |
Afterword | 229 |
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The Politics of Nature: Explorations in Green Political Theory Andrew Dobson,Paul Lucardie Limited preview - 1995 |
The Politics of Nature: Explorations in Green Political Theory Andrew Dobson,Paul Lucardie Limited preview - 2002 |
The Politics of Nature: Explorations in Green Political Theory Andrew Dobson,Paul Lucardie No preview available - 1993 |
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