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Pioneers of ecological humanism /

"In this remarkable new book Brian Morris examines the lives, works and philosophy of three key thinkers in the field of modern ecology. Lewis Mumford, René Dubos and Murray Bookchin, Morris argues, all made hugely important contributions to thinking in the field, and have all equally been ove...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, Brian, 1936- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal, Québec : Black Rose Books, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Ecological Humanism: An Introduction
  • Part 1: Lewis Mumford and Organic Humanism
  • 1. The Radical Scholar
  • 2. Lewis Mumford: The Formative Years
  • 3. Technics and Civilization
  • 4. The Culture of Cities
  • 5. Western Culture and its Transformtion: The Rise of Mechanistic Philosophy
  • 6. The Insurgence of Romanticism and Utilitarian Philosophy
  • 7. Mumford's Organic Philosophy
  • 8. The Renewal of Life
  • Part 2: Rene Dubos and Ecological Humanism
  • 9. Rene Dubos and the Celebration of Life
  • 10. The Living World and Human Nature
  • 11. Sociocultural Evolution and the Human Personality
  • 12. The Ecology of Health and Disease
  • 13. The Theology of Earth
  • 14. Humanized Landscapes
  • 15. The Wooing of the Earth
  • 16. Science and Holism
  • Part 3: The Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin
  • 17. Bookchin's Life and Work
  • 18. The Environmental Crisis and Eco-Anarchism
  • 19. Toward an Ecological Society
  • 20. The Concept of Social Ecology
  • 21. The Deep Ecology Movement
  • 22. Deep Ecology, Biocentrism and Misanthropy
  • 23. Neo-Maltusianism and the Politics of Deep Ecology
  • 24. The Philosophy of Social Ecology
  • 25. In Defence of the Enlightenment
  • Bibliography
  • Index