Enlightenment And Ecology
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Author |
: Tarinski Yavor Tarinski |
Publisher |
: Black Rose Books Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2021-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781551647135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1551647133 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Enlightenment and Ecology by : Tarinski Yavor Tarinski
Throughout his life, prophetic American philosopher Murray Bookchin created social ecology as a comprehensive social program for the challenges of our present era. Through tireless teaching, speaking, organizing, and writing, Bookchin presented a humanist vision of ecology based on community, direct democracy, and the better promises of the Enlightenment, showing how we could transform our society into one that is free and egalitarian. Enlightenment and Ecology is an international collection of commemorative essays by scholars and activists who have each incorporated the ideas of social ecology into their own work. This book also examines how the Kurdish freedom movement is using the Bookchin's utopian ideas. In a time of urgent need for radical change, these essays provide both precious historical lessons and a transformative road map.
Author |
: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2013-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300163742 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300163746 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Enlightenment's Frontier by : Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
DIVEnlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism./div
Author |
: Ulrich Beck |
Publisher |
: Prometheus Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1573923982 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781573923989 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecological Enlightenment by : Ulrich Beck
Beck examines the politics of the risk society. He starts from the assumption that the ecological issue, considered politically and sociologically, is a systematic, legalized violation of fundamental civil rights and, from this position, adduces that the ecological conflict, politically speaking, is the successor to the industrial conflict. One of his central concerns is to illustrate just how the establishment, but expressing as much concern over the environmental issues as the radical groups who first raised them, has endeavored to take over the debate and then effectively stifled it. Beck argues that the vested interests have developed a strategy of avoiding discussion of accountability by bringing mega-risks to the foreground so that containable risks are hidden in their shadow. He concludes by arguing that only by bringing the discussion back to the accountability issue as informed by social sciences can the political initiative be wrested back from the vested interests.
Author |
: Joachim Radkau |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 570 |
Release |
: 2014-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745679990 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745679994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Age of Ecology by : Joachim Radkau
This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today. Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of environmentalism but rather a multiplicity of stories, each with its own dramatic tension: between single-issue movements and the challenges posed by the interconnection of environmental issues, between charismatic leaders and bureaucratic organizations, and between grassroot movements and global players. While the history can be traced back several centuries, environmentalism has flourished since the ‘environmental revolution’ of 1970, spurred on by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 and the growing concern about global warming. While environmentalists often opposed the scientific mainstream, they were also often led by scientific knowledge. Environmentalism is the true Enlightenment of our time Ð so much so that we can call our era ‘the age of ecology’. This timely and comprehensive global history of environmentalism will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the most pressing global issues of our time.
Author |
: Pierre Charbonnier |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2021-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509543731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509543732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Affluence and Freedom by : Pierre Charbonnier
In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all political ideas, whether or not they endorse ecological ideals, are informed by a certain conception of our relationship to the Earth and to our environment. The fundamental political categories of modernity were founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. In this way, modern thinkers imagined a political society of free individuals, equal and prosperous, alongside the development of industry geared towards progress and liberated from the Earth’s shackles. Yet this pact between democracy and growth has now been called into question by climate change and the environmental crisis. It is therefore our duty today to rethink political emancipation, bearing in mind that this can no longer draw on the prospect of infinite growth promised by industrial capitalism. Ecology must draw on the power harnessed by nineteenth-century socialism to respond to the massive impact of industrialization, but it must also rethink the imperative to offer protection to society by taking account of the solidarity of social groups and their conditions in a world transformed by climate change. This timely and original work of social and political theory will be of interest to a wide readership in politics, sociology, environmental studies and the social sciences and humanities generally.
Author |
: Ulrich Beck |
Publisher |
: Prometheus |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1995-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1615927247 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781615927241 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecological Enlightenment by : Ulrich Beck
Beck examines the politics of the risk society. He starts from the assumption that the ecological issue, considered politically and sociologically, is a systematic, legalized violation of fundamental civil rights and, from this position, adduces that the ecological conflict, politically speaking, is the successor to the industrial conflict. One of his central concerns is to illustrate just how the establishment, but expressing as much concern over the environmental issues as the radical groups who first raised them, has endeavored to take over the debate and then effectively stifled it. Beck argues that the vested interests have developed a strategy of avoiding discussion of accountability by bringing mega-risks to the foreground so that containable risks are hidden in their shadow. He concludes by arguing that only by bringing the discussion back to the accountability issue as informed by social sciences can the political initiative be wrested back from the vested interests.
Author |
: Rupert J. Read |
Publisher |
: Routledge Research in Aesthetics |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1138596027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781138596023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Film-philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment by : Rupert J. Read
Introduction: film as freedom: the meaning of film as philosophy -- Implicating the narrator, implicating the audience: Waltz with Bashir and Apocalypto -- How to represent a past we would rather forget: Hiroshima mon amour and Last year at Marienbad -- Learning from conceptually impossible versions of our world: Never let me go and The road -- When melancholia is exactly what is called for: Melancholia and Solaris -- Gravity's arc; or gravity: A space odyssey -- The fantasy of absolute safety through absolute power: The lord of the rings trilogy and Avatar -- Conclusion: what have we learnt?
Author |
: Katey Castellano |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2013-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137354204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137354208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837 by : Katey Castellano
Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land.
Author |
: Klaus Eder |
Publisher |
: SAGE Publications Limited |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 1996-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106012919012 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Construction of Nature by : Klaus Eder
This is a unique and agenda-setting interpretation of nature and ecology that will become the essential reference in any debate on environmental politics and sociology.
Author |
: Rupert Read |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2018-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429947735 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429947739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment by : Rupert Read
Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films. Each chapter contains a discussion of two films—one explored in greater detail and the other analyzed as a minor key which reveals the possibility for the book's ideas to be applied across different films, registers, and genres. The readings are not only interpretive, but they offer a way of thinking and feeling about, with, and through films which is genuinely transformative. Rupert Read’s main contention is that certain films can bring about a change in how we see the world. He advocates an ecological approach to film-philosophy analysis, arguing that film can re-shape the viewer’s relationship to the environment and other living beings. The transformative 'wake-up call' of these films is enlightenment in its true sense. The result is a book that ambitiously aims to change, though film, how we think of ourselves and our place in the world, at a time when such change is more needed than ever before.