John Barry

Environment and Social Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written in an engaging and accessible manner by one of the leading scholars in his field, Environment and Social Theory, completed revised and updated with two new chapters, is an indispensable guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another.

This popular text outlines the complex interlinking of the environment, nature and social theory from ancient and pre-modern thinking to contemporary social theorizing. John Barry:

examines the ways major religions such as Judaeo-Christianity have and continue to conceptualize the environment

analyzes the way the non-human environment features in Western thinking from Marx and Darwin, to Freud and Horkheimer

explores the relationship between gender and the environment, postmodernism and risk society schools of thought, and the contemporary ideology of orthodox economic thinking in social theorising about the environment.

How humans value, use and think about the environment, is an increasingly central and important aspect of recent social theory. It has become clear that the present generation is faced with a series of unique environmental dilemmas, largely unprecedented in human history.

With summary points, illustrative examples, glossary and further reading sections this invaluable resource will benefit anyone with an interest in environmentalism, politics, sociology, geography, development studies and environmental and ecological economics.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU76165
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780415376167
• ISBN-10: 0415376165
• Artikelnr.: 20890980

Autorenporträt

John Barry

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Environment and Social Theory 1. Nature, Environment and Social Theory 2. The Role of the Environment Historically within Social Theory 3. The Uses of Nature and the Non-Human World in Social Theory: Pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment Accounts 4. Twentieth-Century Social Theory and the Non-Human World 5. Right-Wing Reactions to the Environment and Environmental Politics 6. Left-Wing Reactions to the Environment and Environmental Politics 7. Gender, the Non-Human World and Social Thought 8. The Environment and Economic Thought 9. Risk, Environment and Postmodernism 10. Ecology, Biology and Social Theory 11. Greening Social Theory

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Introduction: The Environment and Social Theory 1. Nature, Environment and
Social Theory 2. The Role of the Environment Historically within Social
Theory 3. The Uses of Nature and the Non-Human World in Social Theory:
Pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment Accounts 4. Twentieth-Century Social
Theory and the Non-Human World 5. Right-Wing Reactions to the Environment
and Environmental Politics 6. Left-Wing Reactions to the Environment and
Environmental Politics 7. Gender, the Non-Human World and Social Thought 8.
The Environment and Economic Thought 9. Risk, Environment and Postmodernism
10. Ecology, Biology and Social Theory 11. Greening Social Theory