Environment and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415376167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 350 str.

John Barry

Opis

Offers a thematic centred approach, which serves as a guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another including examinations of the works of the key theorists such as Marx, Mill, Habermas, and Adorno.

Spis treści

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 Non-Human World in Social Theory: Pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment Accounts  4. Twentieth-Century Social Theory and the Non-Human World  5. Right-Wing Reactions to the Environment and Environmental Politics  6. Left-Wing Reactions to the Environment and Environmental Politics  7. Gender, the Non-Human 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

O autorze

John Barry