Engaging Nature: Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon - Hardcover

9780262028059: Engaging Nature: Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon

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ISBN 10: 0262028050 ISBN 13: 9780262028059

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Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past―including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius―in dialogue with current environmental political theory.

Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for such political concepts as rights, citizenship, justice, democracy, the state, race, class, and gender. As the field has matured, scholars have begun to explore connections between Green Theory and such canonical political thinkers as Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, and Marx. The essays in this volume put important figures from the political theory canon in dialogue with current environmental political theory. It is the first comprehensive volume to bring the insights of Green Theory to bear in reinterpreting these canonical theorists.

Individual essays cover such classical figures in Western thought as Aristotle, Hume, Rousseau, Mill, and Burke, but they also depart from the traditional canon to consider Mary Wollstonecraft, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt, and Confucius. Engaging and accessible, the essays also offer original and innovative interpretations that often challenge standard readings of these thinkers. In examining and explicating how these great thinkers of the past viewed the natural world and our relationship with nature, the essays also illuminate our current environmental predicament.

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Plato � Aristotle � Niccol� Machiavelli � Thomas Hobbes � John Locke � David Hume � Jean-Jacques Rousseau � Edmund Burke � Mary Wollstonecraft � John Stuart Mill � Karl Marx � W. E. B. Du Bois � Martin Heidegger � Hannah Arendt � Confucius

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Sheryl D. Breen, W. Scott Cameron, Peter F. Cannav�, Joel Jay Kassiola, Joseph H. Lane Jr. Timothy W. Luke, John M. Meyer, �zg�� Orhan, Barbara K. Seeber, Francisco Seijo, Kimberly K. Smith, Piers H. G. Stephens, Zev Trachtenberg, Andrew Valls, Harlan Wilson

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Peter Cannav� is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Hamilton College and the author of The Working Landscape (MIT Press).

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PublisherMit Pr
Publication date2014
ISBN 10 0262028050
ISBN 13 9780262028059
BindingHardcover
Edition number1
Number of pages304
EditorCannav� Peter F., Lane Joseph H.

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Cannav�, Peter F. [Editor]; Jr., Joseph H. Lane [Editor]; Barry, John [Foreword]; Breen, Sheryl D. [Contributor]; Orhan, �zg�� [Contributor]; Seijo, Francisco [Contributor]; Meyer, John M. [Contributor]; Trachtenberg, Zev [Contributor]; Valls, Andrew [Contributor]; Jr., Joseph H. Lane [Contributor]; Wilson, Harlan [Contributor]; Seeber, Barbara K. [Contributor]; Stephens, Piers H. G. [Contributor]; Luke, Timothy W. [Contributor]; Smith, Kimberly K. [Contributor]; Cameron, W. Scott [Contributor]; Cannav�, Peter F. [Contributor]; Kassiola, Joel Jay [Contributor];

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