Ecological Ethics: An Introduction: Updated for 2018 - Softcover

Curry, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745651267 ISBN 13: 9780745651262

Publisher: Polity, 2011

Synopsis

In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecological ethic is both possible and urgently needed. With this distinctive proposition in mind, Curry introduces and discusses all the major concepts needed to understand the full range of ecological ethics. He discusses light green or anthropocentric ethics with the examples of stewardship, lifeboat ethics and social ecology; the mid-green or intermediate ethics of animal liberation/rights; and dark or deep green ecocentric ethics. Particular attention is given to the Land Ethic, the Gaia Hypothesis and Deep Ecology and its offshoots: Deep Green Theory, Left Biocentrism and the Earth Manifesto. Ecofeminism is also considered, and attention is paid to the close relationship between ecocentrism and virtue ethics. Other chapters discuss green ethics as post-secular, moral pluralism and pragmatism, green citizenship, and human population in the light of ecological ethics. In this new edition, these chapters have all been updated and are joined by discussions, from an ecocentric perspective, of animals, climate change, sustainable economies, education and food. This comprehensive and wide-ranging textbook offers a radical but critical introduction to the subject which puts ecocentrism and the critique of anthropocentrism back at the top of the ethical, intellectual and political agenda. It will be of great interest to students and activists, and to a wider public.

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About the Author

Patrick Curry is an honorary research lecturer at the University of Wales Trinity St David.

Edition details

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745651267
• ISBN 13: 9780745651262
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 360