Environment and social theory

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Title:

Environment and social theory

Author:

Barry, John, 1966-

ISBN:

9780415172707

9780415172691

Personal Author:

Barry, John, 1966-

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 1999.

Physical Description:

ix, 239p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge introductions to environment series

Environment and society

Series Title:

Routledge introductions to environment series

Environment and society

Contents:

Introduction: the environment and social theory -- Ch. 1. 'Nature', 'environment' and social theory -- Ch. 2. The role of the environment historically within social theory -- Ch. 3. The uses of 'nature' and the nonhuman world in social theory: pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment accounts -- Ch. 4. Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world -- Ch. 5. Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought -- Ch. 6. The environment and economic thought -- Ch. 7. Risk, environment and postmodernism -- Ch. 8. Ecology, biology and social theory -- Ch. 9. Greening social theory.

Subject Term:

Human ecology -- Philosophy.

Human ecology -- Religious aspects.

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

Human beings -- Effect of environment on.

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Summary

Written in an accessible and jargon-free way, Environment and Social Theory examines: * the historical relationship between social theory and the environment *pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment social theory and the environment * twentieth century social theory and the environment * economic theory and the environment * the relationship between ecology, biology and social theory * recent theoretical approaches to the environment * the development of a green social theory The ideas and vies of key theorists including Hobbes, Locke, freud, Habermas, Giddens and Beck are discussed to provide comprehensive coverage of social theory for non-specialist readers.