Affluence and freedom : an environmental history of political ideas

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Affluence and freedom : an environmental history of political ideas

Pierre Charbonnier ; tranlasted by Andrew Brown

Polity Press, c2021

  • : pbk

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Abondance et liberté : une histoire environnementale des idées politiques

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-314) and index

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内容説明

In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all political ideas, whether or not they endorse ecological ideals, are informed by a certain conception of our relationship to the Earth and to our environment. The fundamental political categories of modernity were founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. In this way, modern thinkers imagined a political society of free individuals, equal and prosperous, alongside the development of industry geared towards progress and liberated from the Earth's shackles. Yet this pact between democracy and growth has now been called into question by climate change and the environmental crisis. It is therefore our duty today to rethink political emancipation, bearing in mind that this can no longer draw on the prospect of infinite growth promised by industrial capitalism. Ecology must draw on the power harnessed by nineteenth-century socialism to respond to the massive impact of industrialization, but it must also rethink the imperative to offer protection to society by taking account of the solidarity of social groups and their conditions in a world transformed by climate change. This timely and original work of social and political theory will be of interest to a wide readership in politics, sociology, environmental studies and the social sciences and humanities generally.

目次

Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter One. The critique of ecological reason The fabric of liberty The other history. Ecology and the labour question Subsisting, dwelling, knowing Autonomy and abundance Chapter Two. Sovereignty and property. Political philosophy and the land The political affordances of the land Grotius: Empire and possession Locke: the improving citizen Chapter Three. Grain and the market. The order of commerce and the organic economy in the eighteenth century The good use of the land The agrarian kingdom of the Physiocrats The liberal pact: Adam Smith Two types of growth Fichte: the ubiquity of the moderns Chapter Four. The new ecological regime From one liberalism to another The paradoxes of autonomy: Guizot The paradoxes of abundance: Jevons Colonial extractions Extraction-autonomy: Tocqueville Chapter Five. Industrial democracy. From Proudhon to Durkheim Revolutions and industry Property and labour Proudhon as critic of the liberal pact The fraternal idiom Durkheim: 'carbon sociology' The political affordances of coal Chapter Six. The technocratic hypothesis. Saint-Simon and Veblen Material flows and market arrangements The technological normativity of the moderns Laying bare the productive schema Veblen and the cult of efficiency The engineer and property Chapter Seven. Nature in a market society Marx as a thinker of autonomy Putting the forest to good use Technology and agronomy Conquering the globe Karl Polanyi: protecting society, protecting nature Disembedding Socialism, liberalism, conservatism Chapter Eight. The great acceleration and the eclipse of nature Freedom from want Emancipation and acceleration: Herbert Marcuse Oil and atomic power: invisible energies Chapter Nine. Risks and limits: the end of certainties Alarms and controversies The critique of development and political naturalism Risk and the reinvention of autonomy The impasse: between collapse and resilience Chapter Ten. The end of the modern exception and political ecology Symmetrizations Authority and composition Under naturalism lies production Unequal ecological exchange Provincializing critique A new conceptual cartography Changing expectations of justice Autonomy without abundance Towards a new critical subject Chapter Eleven. The self-protection of the Earth. Changing expectations of justice Autonomy without abundance Towards a new critical subject Conclusion. Reinventing liberty Notes Bibliography Index

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