Andrew Biro

Denaturalizing Ecological Politics

Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

With Denaturalizing Ecological Politics, Andrew Biro has found a way of rescuing environmentalism from the ideological trap of naturalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780802080226
• ISBN-10: 0802080227
• Artikelnr.: 21028413

Autorenporträt

Andrew Biro is a professor in the Department of Politics at Acadia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nature or 'Nature'? Ecological Politics and the Postmodern
Condition
1 Ecocentrism and the Defence of Nature
2 Postmodernism: The Critique of ?Nature?
3 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Modernity and the Historicization of Alienation
4 Karl Marx: Objectification and Alienation under Capitalism
5 Theodor W. Adorno: From Udeis to Utopia
6 Herbert Marcuse: Basic and Surplus Alienation
7 Denaturalizing Ecological Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index