Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How We Got Here -- 1 Plato: Private Property and Agriculture for the Commoners-Humans and the Natural World in The Republic -- 2 Aristotle: Phusis, Praxis, and the Good -- 3 Niccolò Machiavelli: Rethinking Decentralization's Role in Green Theory -- 4 Thomas Hobbes: Relating Nature andPolitics -- 5 John Locke: "This Habitable Earth of Ours" -- 6 David Hume: Justice and the Environment -- 7 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Disentangling of Green Paradoxes -- 8 Edmund Burke: The Nature of Politics -- 9 Mary Wollstonecraft: "Systemiz[ing] Oppression"-Feminism, Nature, and Animals -- 10 John Stuart Mill: The Greening of the Liberal Heritage -- 11 Karl Marx: Critique of Political Economy as Environmental Political Theory -- 12 W. E. B. Du Bois: Racial Inequality and Alienation from Nature -- 13 Martin Heidegger: Individual and Collective Responsibility -- 14 Hannah Arendt: Place, World, and Earthly Nature -- 15 Confucius: How Non-Western Political Theory Contributes to Understanding the Environmental Crisis -- Conclusion: The Western Political Theory Canon, Nature, and a Broader Dialogue -- Authors -- Index.