Metanarrative and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9781032647043 / Twarda / 2023 / 144 str.

Stephen James Purdey

Opis

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions, climate change and more. In Metanarrative and the Environment, Stephen James Purdey argues that material approaches to the environmental crisis cannot succeed without the power of a new metanarrative. 

Spis treści

Part I

The Scope and Impact of Metanarrative

 

Chapter 1: Metanarrative: An Introduction

Chapter 2: Narrative Protocol and the Moral Turn

Chapter 3: Global Governance in Contemporary Culture

Chapter 4: The Story of Progress and Prosperity

Chapter 5: The Folly of Growth and the New Metanarrative

 

Part II

Morality and Agency

 

Chapter 6: An Introduction to Dualism, Monism, and the Problem of Reconciliation

Chapter 7: The Material and Transcendent Worlds

Chapter 8: The New Metanarrative: Some Ontological Considerations

Chapter 9: Agency and the Evolution of Metanarrative

Chapter 10: The End and the Beginning

O autorze

Stephen James Purdey is an International Relations (IR) specialist (PhD University of Toronto). His academic research focuses on the theoretical and normative attributes of systems of global governance, and on the practical evolution of new forms of global governance to meet current social-ecological challenges. Now retired, Dr. Purdey has been a contributor to the Great Transition Initiative (greattransition.org), a Boston-based think tank dedicated to the pursuit of planetary sustainability; and the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation at the University of Waterloo (wici.ca), a leading research hub in the field of Complex Adaptive Systems theory. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Purdey worked for several years in the private sector, in Canadian federal politics, and with NGOs such as the United Nations Association, the World Federalists and the Earth Council.