Engaging Nature: Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: How We Got Here......Page 14
1  Plato: Private Property and Agriculture for the Commoners—Humans and the Natural World in The Republic......Page 42
2 
Aristotle: Phusis, Praxis, and the Good......Page 58
3 
Niccolò Machiavelli: Rethinking Decentralization’s Role in Green Theory......Page 78
4
 Thomas Hobbes: Relating Nature andPolitics......Page 96
5 
John Locke: “This Habitable Earth of Ours”......Page 112
6 
David Hume: Justice and the Environment......Page 130
7  Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Disentangling of Green Paradoxes......Page 146
8 
Edmund Burke: The Nature of Politics......Page 166
9  Mary Wollstonecraft: “Systemiz[ing] Oppression”—Feminism, Nature, and Animals......Page 186
10 John Stuart Mill: The Greening of the Liberal 
Heritage......Page 202
11 Karl Marx: Critique of Political Economy as Environmental Political Theory
......Page 218
12 W. E. B. Du Bois: Racial Inequality and Alienation from Nature
......Page 236
13 Martin Heidegger: Individual and Collective 
Responsibility......Page 252
14 Hannah Arendt: Place, World, and Earthly 
Nature......Page 266
15 Confucius: How Non-Western Political Theory Contributes to Understanding the 
Environmental Crisis......Page 284
Conclusion: The Western Political Theory Canon, Nature, and a Broader
 Dialogue......Page 300
Authors......Page 306
Index......Page 308