Environment and social theory
By: John Barry.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Routledge introductions to the environment
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780415376174; 9780415376167
Subjects: Human ecology -- Philosophy; Human ecology -- Religious aspects; Social sciences -- Philosophy; Human beings -- Effect of environment on
Description: 'Environment and Social Theory' outlines the complex interlinking of the environment, nature and social theory from ancient and pre-modern thinking to contemporary social theorising.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Nature", "environment" and social theory; title: The role of the environment historically within social theory; title: The uses of "nature" and the nonhuman world in social theory : pre-enlightenment and enlightenment accounts; title: Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world; title: Right-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics; title: Left-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics; title: Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought; title: The environment and economic thought; title: Risk, environment and postmodernism; title: Ecology, biology and social theory; title: Greening social theory.