Engaging Nature – Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Cannavò, Peter F.; Jr., Joseph H. Lane; Barry, John; Breen, Sheryl D.; Orhan, Özgüç

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262028050 ISBN 13: 9780262028059

Publisher: MIT Press, 2015

Synopsis

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. Essays onPlato * Aristotle * Niccolo 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 ContributorsSheryl D. Breen, W. Scott Cameron, Peter F. Cannavo, Joel Jay Kassiola, Joseph H. Lane Jr. Timothy W. Luke, John M. Meyer, Ozguc Orhan, Barbara K. Seeber, Francisco Seijo, Kimberly K. Smith, Piers H. G. Stephens, Zev Trachtenberg, Andrew Valls, Harlan Wilson

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About the Author:

Peter Cannavo is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Hamilton College and the author of The Working Landscape (MIT Press). Joseph H. Lane Jr. is Hawthorne Professor and Chair of Political Science at Emory and Henry College, Virginia, and coauthor of The Deconstitutionalization of America. John Barry is Reader in Green Political Economy, at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast. John M. Meyer is Professor in the Department of Politics and a Faculty Member in Environmental Studies and the Environment and Community Graduate Program at Humboldt State University. He is the author of Political Nature: Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought and the coeditor of The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice (both published by the MIT Press). Zev Trachtenberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. Joseph H. Lane Jr. is Hawthorne Professor and Chair of Political Science at Emory and Henry College, Virginia, and coauthor of The Deconstitutionalization of America. Peter Cannavo is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Hamilton College and the author of The Working Landscape (MIT Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0262028050
• ISBN 13: 9780262028059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344