Charles Taylor’s Ecological Conversations

Politics, Commonalities and the Natural Environment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

The author uses the work of the eminent Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, to develop a critique of those political perspectives that are based on instrumental ways to reason about the world, claiming that such perspectives invariably sever the connections between the social and natural worlds.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-10
Mått:140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:395 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:201
Upplaga:2015
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137524775

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Glen Lehman is Associate Professor in the School of Commerce, University of South Australia. He has published over 70 scholarly articles in a range of prestigious journals: Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Business Ethics, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Professor Lehman is a member of the British Political Studies Association as well as the British, American and Australian Accounting Associations.

Innehållsförteckning

PART I1. Introduction2. Basic Issues in Taylor ' 's Philosophy3. Taylor ' 's Interpretivism, Knowledge and the Natural Environment4. Taylor ' 's Interpretivism, Social Imaginaries and the Natural Environment5. Taylor ' 's Metaphysics, Merleau-Ponty and the Natural EnvironmentPART II6. Taylor ' 's Environmentalism and Critique of Utilitarianism and Instrumental Reason7. Taylor ' 's Critique of Instrumentalism, Liberalism and Procedure in Politics8. Interpretation, Language and Environmental Values: The Habermas and Taylor Debate9. Critical Perspectives: The Taylor-Rorty Debate10. Taylor and Deep Ecology11. Critical Environmentalism: Marx to Taylor ' 's Interpretivism12. Conclusion