Ecologism : towards ecological citizenship /

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Author / Creator:Attie, Jeanie.
Imprint:Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Description:viii, 107 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3497730
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ISBN:0816633010 (hc)
0816633029 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-103) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Understanding Nature. Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. Understanding nature in the modern world. Ecology and intrinsic value
  • 2. Obligations to Future Generations and Intergenerational Justice. On the needs of future strangers. Intergenerational justice. Selective obligations. Rethinking intergenerational obligations
  • 3. Human and Non-human Animals. Utilitarianism and animal suffering. On obligations to animals. Animals and ecosystems
  • 4. Ecology, Individualism and the Social Order. Liberal thinking and the environment. Neo-liberal thinking and the environment. Conservative thinking and the environment. One moral system or many?
  • 5. The Environment and Human Emancipation. Socialism and the environment. Marxism and the environment. Political radicalism and the environment.