Description |
xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Routledge introductions to environment series |
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Routledge introductions to the environment |
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Routledge introductions to environment series.
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Contents |
Introduction : the environment and social theory -- 1. 'Nature', 'environment' and social theory -- 2. The role of the environment historically within social theory -- 3. The uses of 'nature' and the nonhuman world in social theory : pre-enlightenment and Enlightenment accounts -- 4. Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world -- 5. Right-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- 6. Left-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- 7. Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought -- 8. The environment and economic thought -- 9. Risk, environment and postmodernism -- 10. Ecology, biology and social theory -- 11. Greening social theory |
Summary |
"Environment and Social Theory outlines the complex interlinking of the environment, nature and social theory from ancient and pre-modern thinking to contemporary social theorising. It explores the essentially contested character of the environment and nature within social theory, and draws attention to the need for critical analysis whenever the term 'nature' and 'environment' are used in debate and argument. Drawing on a broad understanding of social theory, the book examines the ways major religions such as Judaeo-Christianity have and continue to conceptualise the environment as well as analysing the way the nonhuman environment plays important roles in Western thinkers such as Rousseau, Malthus, Marx, Darwin, Mill to Freud, Horkheimer and the Frankfurt School."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
Previous ed.: 1999 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [324]-344) and index |
Subject |
Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Human ecology -- Philosophy.
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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LC no. |
2006020746 |
ISBN |
0415376165 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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0415376173 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780415376167 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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9780415376174 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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