Sustainability and Security within Liberal Sociesties - Learning to Live with the Future

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Gough is Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment at the University of Bath. In addition to a wide portfolio of funded research! he has led geographical expeditions in Borneo and Papua New Guinea and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His many publications include Higher Education and Sustainable Development: Paradox and Possibility! published by Routledge in 2008.Andrew Stables is Professor of Education and Philosophy at the University of Bath. He has published widely on environmental literacy and the possibility of education for sustainable development! and is interested in the application of liberal theories in a postmodern context. Recent books include Education for Diversity: Making Differences (2003) and Living and Learning as Semiotic Engagement:A New Theory of Education (2005). Klappentext Explores the implications for sustainability and security from a range of intellectual perspectives on liberalism! such as those offered by John Rawls! Robert Nozick! Frederick Hayek! Ronald Dworkin! Michael Oakeshott! Amartya Sen and Jurgen Habermas. Zusammenfassung This book explores the implications for sustainability and security from a range of intellectual perspectives on liberalism, such as those offered by John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Frederick Hayek, Ronald Dworkin, Michael Oakeshott, Amartya Sen and Jürgen Habermas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. 1. Amaratya Sen and Sustainability Timothy W. Luke 2. Rawlsian Justice in a Common Globe Aaron James 3. Deliberative Communication for Sustainability? A Habermas-Inspired Pluralistic Approach Tomas Englund! Johan Öhman and Leif Östman 4. Dworkin and the Appeal of Theory Stephen Guest 5.Nozick on Security and Sustainability Christopher Winch6. Hayekian Liberalism and Sustainable DevelopmentMark Pennington 7. Engaging Tradition: Michael Oakeshott on Liberal Learning Hanan Alexander 8.Liberalism! Sustainability! Security! Learning: Framing the Issues Stephen Gough and Andrew Stables. Contributors. Index. ...

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• Authors: Stephen Gough, Andrew Stables
• Assisted by: Stephen Gough (Editor), Stephen (University of Bath Gough (Editor), Gough Stephen (Editor), Andrew Stables (Editor), Andrew (University of Bath Stables (Editor), Stables Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2008
• EAN: 9780415955829
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95582-9
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought; Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Political science & theory, Educational strategies & policy, Political science and theory, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Human Geography, Development Studies, Educational strategies and policy