Environmentalism And Political Theory: Toward An Ecocentric Approach

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
The Development of Modern Ecopolitical Thought: From Participation and Survival to Emancipation......Page 20
The Environmental Problematic as a Crisis of Participation......Page 21
The Environmental Problematic as a Crisis of Survival......Page 24
The Environmental Problematic as a Crisis of Culture and Character and as an Opportunity for Emancipation......Page 30
The Emancipatory Critique of Conservatism, Liberalism, and Orthodox Marxism......Page 34
The Anthropocentric/Ecocentric Cleavage within Emancipatory Thought......Page 39
Exploring the Environmental Spectrum: From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism......Page 46
Resource Conservation......Page 48
Human Welfare Ecology......Page 49
Preservationism......Page 52
Animal Liberation......Page 55
Ecocentrism......Page 58
Ecocentrism Explained and Defended......Page 62
Some Common Criticisms and Misunderstandings......Page 68
Three Varieties of Ecocentrism......Page 73
Transpersonal Ecology......Page 74
Ecofeminism......Page 76
The Ecocentric Challenge to Marxism......Page 88
The Theoretical Roots......Page 90
Orthodox Eco-Marxism......Page 95
Humanist Eco-Marxism......Page 100
Beyond Marxism......Page 107
The Failed Promise of Critical Theory......Page 110
The Legacy of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse......Page 113
Habermasian Revisions......Page 119
The Ecocentric Critique......Page 122
The ~Good Life~ Revisited......Page 129
Ecosocialism: The Post-Marxist Synthesis......Page 132
The Ecosocialist Critique......Page 133
Farewell to Scientific Socialism and the Economic Growth Consensus......Page 135
The Problematic Role of the Working Class......Page 136
The New Internationalism......Page 138
The Meaning and Lesson of Ecology according to Ecosocialism......Page 140
The Ecosocialist Agenda......Page 145
Evaluation: More Democracy or More Bureaucracy?......Page 149
An Alternative Green Market Economy......Page 153
Ecoanarchism: The Non-Marxist Visionaries......Page 158
The Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin......Page 159
Bookchin\'s Social Hierarchy Thesis......Page 161
Bookchin\'s Evolutionary Stewardship Thesis......Page 167
Ecocommunalism......Page 173
Monasticism Revisited......Page 176
Bioregionalism......Page 180
Does Ecocentrism Demand Ecoanarchism?......Page 183
The ~Other Side~ of Decentralization, Local Democracy, and Human Scale......Page 186
The Ecoanarchist Model of Autonomy as Self-Management......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 192
Documentation......Page 200
Bibliography......Page 250
Index......Page 275