What Is Agriculture For? - Archetypes for Future Food Systems

What Is Agriculture For? describes four contrasting rationales for technical and policy change in agriculture and food systems.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems


• Chapter 2: Archetypes, Imaginaries, and the Philosophy of Technology


• Chapter 3: Technological Modernization and Industrial Agriculture


• Chapter 4: Science and Sustainable Intensification


• Chapter 5: Rural Resilience and the Food Movement


• Chapter 6: Urban Agriculture: The Food Movement Moves On


• Chapter 7: Gaps, Overlaps, and the Political Ecology of Food Systems


• Chapter 8: Deep Agrarianism

About the author

Paul B. Thompson is Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University where he was the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food, and Community Ethics from 2003 until 2022. He held the Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University from 1997 to 2003. All of Thompson's academic positions have been joint appointments between philosophy and each university's college of agriculture and natural resources.

Product details

• Authors: Paul B Thompson, Paul B. (Professor Emeritus Thompson, Thompson Paul B.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9780197625750
• ISBN: 978-0-19-762575-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, SCIENCE / Ethics, Environmental Management, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Agriculture and farming, Food security and supply, Management Of Land & Natural Resources