An Ethics of Place: Radical Ecology, Postmodernity, and Social Theory

by Smith, Mick

• ISBN13: 9780791449080
• ISBN10: 0791449084
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

Mick Smith is Lecturer in the Division of Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(22)
Against the Rationalization of Environmental Values	23	(32)
Closed to Nature: Social Theory and Ethics from Durkheim to Habermas	55	(24)
Social Theory, Nature, and the Production Paradigm	79	(30)
To Speak of Trees: Social Constructivism, Environmental Values, and the Furures of Radical Ecology	109	(22)
Environmental Antinomianism: The Moral World Turned Upside Down	131	(20)
Against the Enclosure of the Ethical Commons: Radical Environmentalism as an ``Ethics of Place''	151	(18)
Thin Air and Silent Gravity: The Ecological Self and the Intangibility of the Ethical Subject	169	(22)
A Green thought in a Green Shade: Moral Sense and an Ethics of Place	191	(30)
Notes	221	(34)
Bibliography	255	(22)
Index	277