Environment and Social TheoryRoutledge, 2005 M07 28 - 256 pages Written in an accessible and jargon-free way, Environment and Social Theory examines: * the historical relationship between social theory and the environment *pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment social theory and the environment * twentieth century social theory and the environment * economic theory and the environment * the relationship between ecology, biology and social theory * recent theoretical approaches to the environment * the development of a green social theory The ideas and vies of key theorists including Hobbes, Locke, freud, Habermas, Giddens and Beck are discussed to provide comprehensive coverage of social theory for non-specialist readers. |
Contents
the environment and social theory | 1 |
1 Nature environment and social theory | 7 |
2 The role of the environment historically within social theory | 33 |
preEnlightenment and Enlightenment accounts | 51 |
4 Twentiethcentury social theory and the nonhuman world | 79 |
5 Gender the nonhuman world and social thought | 105 |
6 The environment and economic thought | 125 |
7 Risk environment and postmodernism | 149 |
8 Ecology biology and social theory | 173 |
9 Greening social theory | 197 |
Internet resources and sites | 221 |
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