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- catalog abstract ""Concern over environmental problems is prompting us to reexamine established thinking about society and politics. The challenge is to find a way for the public's concern for the environment to become more integral to social, economic, and political decision making. Two interpretations have dominated Western portrayals of the nature-politics relationship, what John Meyer calls the dualist and the derivative. The dualist account holds that politics - and human culture in general - is completely separate from nature. The derivative account views Western political thought as derived from conceptions of nature, whether Aristotelian teleology, the clocklike mechanism of early modern science, or Darwinian selection. Meyer examines the nature-politics relationship in the writings of two of its most pivotal theorists, Aristotle and Thomas Hobbes, and of contemporary environmentalist thinkers. He concludes that we must overcome the limitations of both the dualist and the derivative interpretations if we are to understand the relationship between nature and politics."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Environmentalism and the interpretation of Western thought".
- catalog contributor b12317495.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Concern over environmental problems is prompting us to reexamine established thinking about society and politics. The challenge is to find a way for the public's concern for the environment to become more integral to social, economic, and political decision making. Two interpretations have dominated Western portrayals of the nature-politics relationship, what John Meyer calls the dualist and the derivative. The dualist account holds that politics - and human culture in general - is completely separate from nature. The derivative account views Western political thought as derived from conceptions of nature, whether Aristotelian teleology, the clocklike mechanism of early modern science, or Darwinian selection. Meyer examines the nature-politics relationship in the writings of two of its most pivotal theorists, Aristotle and Thomas Hobbes, and of contemporary environmentalist thinkers. He concludes that we must overcome the limitations of both the dualist and the derivative interpretations if we are to understand the relationship between nature and politics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-203 and index.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- [pt. 1]. Future and past -- 2. Worldviews and the evasion of politics in environmentalist thought -- 3. Searching for roots : environmentalist interpretations of the history of Western thought -- [pt]. 2. Rethinking nature in political theory -- 4. Mechanical nature and modern politics : the system of Thomas Hobbes -- 5. Natural ends and political naturalism? Understanding Aristotle -- [pt]. 3. Political nature -- 6. Nature, politics, and the experience of place -- 7. New possibilities for environmental politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 210 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0262133903 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0262632241 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "320.5 21".
- catalog subject "Environmentalism.".
- catalog subject "JA75.8 .M49 2001".
- catalog subject "Political ecology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- [pt. 1]. Future and past -- 2. Worldviews and the evasion of politics in environmentalist thought -- 3. Searching for roots : environmentalist interpretations of the history of Western thought -- [pt]. 2. Rethinking nature in political theory -- 4. Mechanical nature and modern politics : the system of Thomas Hobbes -- 5. Natural ends and political naturalism? Understanding Aristotle -- [pt]. 3. Political nature -- 6. Nature, politics, and the experience of place -- 7. New possibilities for environmental politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Environmentalism and the interpretation of Western thought".
- catalog title "Political nature : environmentalism and the interpretation of Western thought / John M. Meyer.".
- catalog type "text".