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Plato: Private Property and Agriculture for the Commoners—Humans and the Natural World in The Republic
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Sheryl D. Breen
Published: 26 January 2015
... Reason Plato The Republic (Plato) Platonic forms property environmental political theory nature and politics Thomas More Utopia (More) agriculture Whether we are compelled or repelled by Plato’s arguments for the ideal city-state and just rulership, his dialogues have driven a significant...
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Published: 26 January 2015
...) environmental political theory decentralization bioregionalism anarchism federalism civic republicanism Elinor Ostrom Centralization of wealth and power contributes to social and economic injustice, environmental destruction, and militarization. … Decision-making should, as much as possible, remain...
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Published: 26 January 2015
... On the Social Contract (Rousseau) Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (Rousseau) Discourse on the Origins of Inequality (Rousseau) Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Rousseau) Emile (Rousseau) environmental political theory nature and politics modernity Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major political thinker...
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John Stuart Mill: The Greening of the Liberal Heritage
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Piers H. G. Stephens
Published: 26 January 2015
... Equilibrium Lane Joseph H Jr Miller Dale Stationary state economy Agriculture Parham John Collectives and collectivity Decentralization Winch Donald Scarcity Capaldi Nicholas Preservation John Stuart Mill “Nature”(Mill) Principles of Political Economy (Mill) environmental political theory...
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Published: 26 January 2015
... Sinnott Armstrong Walter Individualism Parfit Derek Niemöller Martin Martin Heidegger Being and Time (Heidegger) “The Question Concerning Technology” (Heidegger) environmental political theory Dasein climate change micropolitics Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Virtually alone among major twentieth...
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We Have Never Been Liberal
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John M. Meyer
Published: 06 March 2015
...Examines the shifting relationship between environmental political theory and the political philosophy of liberalism. Earlier writings often developed a total critique of, while more recent ones offer an increasingly nuanced engagement with, liberal theory. This turn toward liberalism echoes...
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Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma
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John M. Meyer
Published online: 17 September 2015
Published in print: 06 March 2015
..., and householding – in affluent postindustrial societies. The aim is to open up new ways of thinking about property, freedom, and citizenship that might foster a more resonant and expansive political imagination, while also modeling a distinctive approach to environmental political theory....
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Introduction: How We Got Here
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Peter F. Cannavò and Joseph H. Lane
Published: 26 January 2015
...This is an introduction to the volume as a whole. The editors, Peter F. Cannavò and Joseph H. Lane Jr., summarize the origins and history of environmental political theory and discuss the need for a volume like Engaging Nature and how this book goes beyond past studies...
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Thomas Hobbes: Relating Nature and Politics
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John M. Meyer
Published: 26 January 2015
... Carolyn Ophuls William Valls Andrew An Inconvenient Truth Gore Climate change anthropogenic Gore Albert Jr Citizenship Artifice human Nominalism Objectivity Phenomenology Thomas Hobbes De Corpore(Hobbes) Leviathan(Hobbes) environmental political theory nature and politics nominalism...
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Mary Wollstonecraft: “Systemiz[ing] Oppression”—Feminism, Nature, and Animals
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Barbara K. Seeber
Published: 26 January 2015
... Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft) Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (Wollstonecraft) Original Stories from Real Life (Wollstonecraft) environmental political theory ecofeminism feminism animal rights environmental ethics Mary...
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Karl Marx: Critique of Political Economy as Environmental Political Theory
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Timothy W. Luke
Published: 26 January 2015
... Class social Arendt Hannah Technology de Certeau Michel Karl Marx Capital (Marx) “Wage Labour and Capital”(Marx) Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Marx) environmental political theory Marxism capitalism commodification political economy globalization Karl Marx (1818–1883...
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Confucius: How Non-Western Political Theory Contributes to Understanding the Environmental Crisis
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Joel Jay Kassiola
Published: 26 January 2015
... Confucianism Cosmoanthropism Nature Tu Wei Ming Chan Wing Tsit Doctrine of the Mean Confucius Dualism Holism Locke John Chang Tsai Intergenerational obligation Wang Yang ming Ecocentrism Wollstonecraft Mary Confucius The Analects (Confucius) Neo-Confucianism environmental political theory...
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Conclusion: The Western Political Theory Canon, Nature, and a Broader Dialogue
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Peter F. Cannavò and Joseph H. Lane
Published: 26 January 2015
... environmental political theory Western political thought comparative political thought anthropocentrism As the essays in this volume demonstrate, the political theory canon offers a wealth of practical and theoretical insights into the relationship between humanity or, somewhat more specifically, political...
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Engaging Nature: Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
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Peter F. Cannavò (ed.) and Joseph H. Lane Jr. (ed.)
Published online: 19 January 2017
Published in print: 26 January 2015
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Published: 26 January 2015
...) Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle) anthropocentrism environmental political theory phusis eudaimonia oikonomia kosmos praxis Aristotle’s environmental relevance has been challenged on the basis of the charge of anthropocentricism. As Sheryl Breen points out in this volume, Greek philosophy in general...
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John Locke: “This Habitable Earth of Ours”
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Zev Trachtenberg
Published: 26 January 2015
... Toleration Locke Tragedy of the commons Haddad Brent Scarcity Arendt Hannah Artifice human John Locke First and Second Treatises of Government (Locke) environmental political theory property rights regulatory takings sustainability James Tully habitation liberalism Robert Filmer Their many...
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David Hume: Justice and the Environment
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Andrew Valls
Published: 26 January 2015
... political theory liberalism benevolence environmental justice animal rights J. Baird Callicott Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac It is sometimes claimed that liberal political theory stands in tension with or is even incompatible with environmentalism. For example, Andrew Dobson suggests...
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Edmund Burke: The Nature of Politics
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Harlan Wilson
Published: 26 January 2015
... of the Sublime and Beautiful (Burke) Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke) environmental political theory conservatism aesthetics intergenerational ethics sustainability the precautionary principle private property The thought of Edmund Burke (1729–1797) provides a distinctive way of looking...
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Published: 26 January 2015
... Utopianism Democracy Breen Sheryl D Plato Habitation W.E.B. Du Bois Darkwater (Du Bois) The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois) The Quest of the Silver Fleece (Du Bois) environmental political theory racism African-Americans wilderness agriculture Frederick Douglass Like the other theorists...
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Hannah Arendt: Place, World, and Earthly Nature
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Peter F. Cannavò
Published: 26 January 2015
... Arendt The Human Condition (Arendt) Between Past and Future (Arendt) environmental political theory geography place habitation preservation ethic of care Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), a German Jew who fled the Holocaust and became a citizen of the United States, was one of the most important...