Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason

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Psychology Press, 2002 - Nature - 291 pages
"Environmental Culture: the ecological crisis of reason presents a radically new picture of how our culture must change in order to develop an ecologically rational society. Drawing on a range of ideas from feminism, democracy, globalisation and post-colonial thought, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the environment and our place in it."--BOOK JACKET.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 The ecological crisis of reason
13
2 Rationalism and the ambiguity of science
38
3 The politics of ecological rationality
62
4 Inequality and ecological rationality
81
5 The blindspots of centrism and human selfenclosure
97
6 Philosophy prudence and anthropocentrism
123
7 The ethics of commodification
143
8 Towards a dialogical interspecies ethics
167
9 Unity solidarity and deep ecology
196
10 Towards a materialist spirituality of place
218
11 Conclusion
236
Notes
241
Bibliography
269
Index
279
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Val Plumwood is Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney.

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