Mathew Humphrey

Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory

The Challenge to the Deliberative Ideal

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the reasons why some despair at the prospects for an ecological form of democracy, and challenges the recent `deliberative turn¿ in environmental political thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415553933
• ISBN-10: 0415553938
• Artikelnr.: 26684952

Autorenporträt

Mathew Humphrey is Reader in Political Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Ecological Politics Against Democracy 1. Crisis
Management: Eco-Authoritarianism and the Inadequacy of Democracy 2.
Anarcho-Primitivism and Direct Action Politics 3. The War on 'Eco-Terror'
4. The Justification of Environmental Direct Action Part 2: Democracy,
Deliberation, and Ecological Outcomes 5. Ecology, Autonomy, and Liberal
Democracy 6. Deliberative Democracy and the Challenge of Radical
Environmentalism 7. Radical Environmentalism and the Idea of Public Reason.
Conclusion