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Author Humphrey, Mathew

Title Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory : the Challenge to the Deliberative Ideal
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (186 pages)
Series Extremism and Democracy
Extremism and Democracy
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Ecological politics against democracy; 1. Crisis management: Eco-authoritarianism and the inadequacy of democracy; 2. Anarcho-primitivism and direct action politics; 3. The 'war on eco-terror'; 4. The justification of environmental direct action; Part II: Democracy, deliberation, and ecological outcomes; 5. Ecology, autonomy, and liberal democracy; 6. Deliberative democracy and the challenge of radical environmentalism; 7. Radical environmentalism and the idea of public reason
ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This volume examines the reasons why some despair at the prospects for an ecological form of democracy, and challenges the recent?deliberative turn? in environmental political thought
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203963685
0203963687
1280955139
9781280955136