Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxviii, 210 pages)
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781350027169
,
9781350027107
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9781350027077
Content:
"The Green Light ('Le Feu Vert') offers an original and profound exploration of the roots of environmental philosophy and the Anthropocene. Bernard Charbonneau situates the wellspring of the ecological movement in the dialectics of Nature and Freedom, and their needful but uneasy joining against the totalizing system of technological society that threatens them both. Using this paradoxical tension as a yardstick, he probes the ways in which concepts of Nature have developed as industrialization became second nature and jeopardized the original, taken for granted until its advent. This allows Charbonneau to explain how movements and policies claiming to deal with this issue have gone wrong. A spirited critique of how the environmental movement has taken shape in relation to philosophy, politics, theology and contemporary culture, this book written in 1980 is representative of an oft-overlooked strand of French environmentalist thought, as a look back on its first decade in the public eye by a man who had originated political ecology half a century earlier. Charbonneau can be said to have prepared the way for many current concerns within environmental thought: the tension between liberalism and ecologism in green political theory; the wider question of the compatibility of ecological imperatives with supposedly foundational freedoms under capitalism; the discussions over how to balance existing democratic structures with environmental goals; the tensions between radical and reformist strategies within green movements; the controversy over the core values of ecological politics in a world transformed by climate change and peak everything; and the proper attitude of environmental movements to institutional science. This ground-breaking work should be front and centre of the debates that he anticipated, while giving a timely perspective on the interconnected questions of nature and human freedom. This first English translation of a work by Bernard Charbonneau provides not only a vivid account of environmental philosophy, but an introduction to this important author's thought."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Part 1. Seeds: The origins of the ecological revolt -- Part 2. Roots: Foundations of the ecological movement -- Part 3. Diseases and poisons: Contradictions and shortcomings of the ecological nebula -- Part 4. Fruits: Sketch of an ecological politics
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Text in English, translated from French
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350027084
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350027091
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Charbonneau, Bernard, 1910 - 1996 The green light London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ISBN 9781350027084
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350027081
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350027091
Additional Edition:
ISBN 135002709X
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350027169
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