Nature, Action and the Future - Political Thought and the Environment

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

List of contents

1. Introduction: history, theory and the environment Katrina Forrester and Sophie Smith; Part I. Time Nature and the Land: 2. Is there any place for environmental thinking in early modern European political thought? Annabel Brett; 3. 'Sustainability', resources and the destiny of states in German cameralist thought Paul Warde; 4. Abundance and scarcity in geological time, 1784-1844 Fredrick Albritton Jonsson; 5. Slack Malcolm Bull; Part II. Science, Agency and the Future: 6. The nature of fear and the fear of nature from Hobbes to the hydrogen bomb Deborah Coen; 7. Between Frankfurt and Vienna: two traditions of political ecology John O'Neill and Thomas Uebel; 8. Uncertainty, action and politics: the problem of negligibility Melissa Lane; 9. What kind of problem is negligibility: a response to Melissa Lane Richard Tuck; 10. Optimism, pessimism, fatalism David Runciman; Afterword: climate change in the light of the past Quentin Skinner.

About the author

Katrina Forrester is assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts.Sophie Smith is associate professor of political theory at the University of Oxford.

Summary

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

Product details

• Authors: Katrina (Harvard University Forrester, Sophie Smith
• Assisted by: Katrina Forrester (Editor), Katrina (Harvard University Forrester (Editor), Katrina (Queen Mary University of London) Forrester (Editor), Sophie Smith (Editor), Sophie (University of Oxford) Smith (Editor), Smith Sophie (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781107199286
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19928-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Political science and theory, Environmentalist thought and ideology