Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet

ISBN-13: 9780367346775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Christopher J. Orr

Opis

This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization’s ability to live within ecological limits.

Spis treści

Forward by Dale Jamieson  1. Introduction  Part I Navigating Wicked Dilemmas of Liberty and Agency in the Anthropocene  2. Liberty in the near Anthropocene: State, Market, and Livelihood  3. Nations and Nationalism in the Anthropocene  4. Reclaiming Freedom Through Prefigurative Politics  Prt II Seeds of Freedom and Nature in Modern Traditions  5. Are freedom and Interdependency Compatible? Lessons from Classical Liberal and Contemporary Feminist Theory  6. Limits and Liberty in the Anthropocene  7. The Virtue Ethics Alternative to Freedom for a Mutually Beneficial Human-Earth Relationship  8. Who Stands for Uŋčí Makhá: The Liberal Nation-State, Racism, Freedom, and Nature  9. Nature, Liberty, and Ontology: Why Nature Experience Still Exists and Matters in the Anthropocene  Part III Resisting the Undertow of Modernity  10. Liberation from excess – a post-growth economy case for freedom in the Anthropocene  11. Cognitively Unstable Rational Agents: A New Challenge for Economics in the Anthropocene?  12. The Civilicene and its Alternatives: Anthropology and its Longue Durée  13. Defending and Driving the Climate Movement by Redefining Freedom  Part IV From Navigating the Anthropocene to Being in the Ecozoic  14. A Beginners Guide to Avoiding Bad Policy Mistakes in the Anthropocene  15. Liberty, energy and complexity in the Longue Durée  16. Forest on Trial: Towards a Relational Theory of Legal Agency for Transitions into the Ecozoic  17. From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to Harmony in the Ecozoic