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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animals anthropocentric argument aspects Beck behaviour Benton biological biophilia biophilia hypothesis capitalism capitalist central century Christian civilisation classical liberal concepts concern countryside critique culture democratic dominant ecofeminist ecological economics economic thought emergence emphasis added Enlightenment environment and social environmental economics environmental issues environmental politics environmental problems example exploitation external feminist form of social Frankfurt School gendered genetic Giddens Giddens’s globalisation God’s green politics green social theory greening of social Habermas historical human nature human social human society idea important industrial revolution industrial society interaction labour land liberal London Marxist materialist ecofeminism means moral natural environment natural science natural world needs nonhuman environment nonhuman world organisation particular perspective political economy postmodern practice precautionary principle production relationship reproduction risk society Routledge scientific seen sense simply Social Darwinism social order social thought social-environmental relations sociobiology species suggests Ted Benton thinking tradition transformation urban Western wilderness women