Garrett Hardin Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Near fine. First edition. Inscribed briefly by Garrett Hardin to no recipient on the title page: "Garrett Hardin, a denizen within." Likely the only copy signed by Hardin. InThe Green Crusade,"Rubin tells the story of this massive yet strangely unnoticed transformation of [environmental] public perception and social morality by focusing on the small group of influential writers and thinkers---Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Paul Ehrlich, E.F. Schumacher, and others--whose enormously popular writings gave birth to the environmental movement as we know it." You can add Hardin to that list, as the book includes a 25-page discussion of his work and his influential idea of the "tragedy of the commons." Ultimately Rubin critiques the environmental movement, as he argues that its utopian vision ultimately trends toward totalitarianism. He is a professor of political science at Duquesne University. A near fine book on account of one small bump to bottom edge of front board; in a near fine jacket. A provocative book and exploration of core environmental writers, uniquely signed.…

Softcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page in green ink: "For Ashley Montagu -- First-class Disturber of the Peace! from Garrett Hardin, March 1983." Uncommon signed. This is the simultaneous paperback release. Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and public intellectual known for his progressive stances on race and gender and his criticism of creationism. Hardin was a populations ecologist at UC Santa Barbara renown for his often-anthologized Science essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" and for his sometimes controversial stances on overpopulation. They may have overlapped briefly at UC Santa Barbara in 1962 and 1963. Montagu also provided praise for Hardin's earlier book Nature and Man's Fate. Naked Emperors follows up on Hardin's earlier collection Stalking the Wild Taboo and offers sections of essays on immigration, evolution (including essays on creationism), human ecology, and language. A very good or better paperback with rubbing and light creasing to spine, otherwise fine; interior is clean and crisp. A nice association. Signed.…