Engaging Nature: Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262526565 ISBN 13: 9780262526562

Publisher: Mit Pr, 2014

Synopsis

Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past―including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius―in dialogue with current environmental political theory.

Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for such political concepts as rights, citizenship, justice, democracy, the state, race, class, and gender. As the field has matured, scholars have begun to explore connections between Green Theory and such canonical political thinkers as Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, and Marx. The essays in this volume put important figures from the political theory canon in dialogue with current environmental political theory. It is the first comprehensive volume to bring the insights of Green Theory to bear in reinterpreting these canonical theorists.

Individual essays cover such classical figures in Western thought as Aristotle, Hume, Rousseau, Mill, and Burke, but they also depart from the traditional canon to consider Mary Wollstonecraft, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hannah Arendt, and Confucius. Engaging and accessible, the essays also offer original and innovative interpretations that often challenge standard readings of these thinkers. In examining and explicating how these great thinkers of the past viewed the natural world and our relationship with nature, the essays also illuminate our current environmental predicament.

Essays on
Plato · Aristotle · Niccolò Machiavelli · Thomas Hobbes · John Locke · David Hume · Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Edmund Burke · Mary Wollstonecraft · John Stuart Mill · Karl Marx · W. E. B. Du Bois · Martin Heidegger · Hannah Arendt · Confucius

Contributors
Sheryl D. Breen, W. Scott Cameron, Peter F. Cannavò, Joel Jay Kassiola, Joseph H. Lane Jr. Timothy W. Luke, John M. Meyer, Özgüç Orhan, Barbara K. Seeber, Francisco Seijo, Kimberly K. Smith, Piers H. G. Stephens, Zev Trachtenberg, Andrew Valls, Harlan Wilson

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Cannavò is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Hamilton College and the author of The Working Landscape (MIT Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0262526565
• ISBN 13: 9780262526562
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Cannavò Peter F., Lane Joseph H. Jr.