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Environmental Philosophy : The Art of Life in a World of Limits.
Title:
Environmental Philosophy : The Art of Life in a World of Limits.
Author:
Leonard, Liam.
ISBN:
9781783501373
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Series:
Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice ; v.13

Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice
Contents:
FRONT COVER -- ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: THE ART OF LIFE IN A WORLD OF LIMITS -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- MACINTYRE AND HAVEL AS GREEN POLITICAL THINKERS: UNREASONABLE THINKING IN TURBULENT TIMES -- INTRODUCTION -- HAVEL AND THE IMPERATIVE TO 'LIVE IN TRUTH': DISSENT AND GREEN POLITICS -- MACINTYRE AS A GREEN THINKER: VULNERABILITY IN POLITICAL AND MORAL THEORY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE TRANSITION TO GREEN LIFESTYLES BASED ON VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY: THE DIFFICULT ROAD TOWARDS ENJOYABLE, GRACEFUL AND SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NEED FOR A RADICALLY NEW CONSUMER CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES -- SOCIAL FACTORS INCREASING THE NECESSITY FOR RADICAL CHANGES IN LIFESTYLE AND CONSUMPTION -- LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE REDUCTION OF CONSUMERISM -- GREEN LIFESTYLES AND VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY -- SLOWING DOWN, ENJOYING FREE TIME AND WORKING LESS -- GRACEFULNESS AND ELEGANCE VERSUS AUSTERITY -- SYSTEMATICALLY INVESTING IN HIGH TECH GREEN PRODUCTS AND CONSUMING 'DIFFERENTLY' -- CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING (1): CLIMATE SCIENCE AND SCEPTICISM -- INTRODUCTION -- CLIMATE SCIENCE -- CLIMATE SCEPTICISM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING (2): TWO OBSTACLES TO CIRCUMVENT -- TWO IMMEDIATE OBSTACLES -- SYNDROMES AND SOLUTIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- A CALL FOR A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ATTENTION: MINDFULNESS AS A NEW COMMONS -- INTRODUCTION -- UNDERSTANDING OUR DILEMMA: CAPITALISM'S PSYCHIC INVESTMENT -- CAPITAL AS POWER AND MASS CONSUMERISM -- CONSUMERISM AND THE 'POLITICAL TECHNOLOGIES OF INDIVIDUALS' -- CAPITALIST REALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- CONCLUSIONS: MINDFULNESS AS COMMONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- TERRITORY IN A WORLD OF LIMITS: EXPLORING CLAIMS TO OIL AND ICE -- BASIC NEEDS AND TERRITORY.

THE SCOPE OF TERRITORIAL RIGHTS: QUESTIONING RIGHTS TO THE ARCTIC AND UNDERGROUND RESOURCE RIGHTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- MANDATORY NON-ANTHROPOCENTRISM: THE POLITICAL UNREALISM OF MAKING METAETHICAL DEMANDS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- IRISH RUINS ANCIENT AND NEW: GHOST ESTATES, MEGALITHS AND HUMAN RELATIONS WITH THE REST OF NATURE -- INTRODUCTION -- IRISH RUINS ANCIENT AND NEW: MEGALITHIC ROMANCE AND ENIGMA -- RUINS AS A METAPHOR FOR RESISTANCE TO THE MODERNISATION PROCESS -- GHOST ESTATES AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS: MODERNITY, DISREGARD FOR THE REST OF NATURE, AND PROFIT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- WALKING RESPECTFULLY ON THE EARTH: A PROBLEM FOR DEEP ECOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
What impact are we having on the environment around us? How can we limit the effect of human life on the natural world? These questions and more are considered in Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice volume 13, which looks at environmental philosophy, humanity's place in the world, and how we can live in harmony with our planet.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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