Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies : Learning to Live with the Future

ISBN-13: 9780415955829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 160 str.

Stables Gough;Gough Stephen

Opis

Explores the implications for sustainability and security from a range of intellectual perspectives on liberalism, such as those offered by John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Frederick Hayek, Ronald Dworkin, Michael Oakeshott, Amartya Sen and Jurgen Habermas.

Spis treści

Preface.  1. Amaratya Sen and Sustainability  Timothy W. Luke  2. Rawlsian Justice in a Common Globe  Aaron James  3. Deliberative Communication for Sustainability? A Habermas-Inspired Pluralistic Approach  Tomas Englund, Johan Öhman and Leif Östman  4. Dworkin and the Appeal of Theory  Stephen Guest  5. Nozick on Security and Sustainability  Christopher Winch  6. Hayekian Liberalism and Sustainable Development
Mark Pennington  7. Engaging Tradition: Michael Oakeshott on Liberal Learning  Hanan Alexander  8. Liberalism, Sustainability, Security, Learning: Framing the Issues  Stephen Gough and Andrew Stables.  Contributors.  Index.

O autorze

Stephen Gough is Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment at the University of Bath. In addition to a wide portfolio of funded research, he has led geographical expeditions in Borneo and Papua New Guinea and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His many publications include Higher Education and Sustainable Development: Paradox and Possibility, published by Routledge in 2008.

Andrew Stables is Professor of Education and Philosophy at the University of Bath. He has published widely on environmental literacy and the possibility of education for sustainable development, and is interested in the application of liberal theories in a postmodern context. Recent books include Education for Diversity: Making Differences (2003) and Living and Learning as Semiotic Engagement: A New Theory of Education (2005).