The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental EthicsUniv of Wisconsin Press, 17.01.1989 - 304 Seiten Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended to the nonhuman world. |
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2 Ideological Origins of American Environmentalism | 33 |
3 Ecology Widens the Circle | 55 |
4 The Greening of Religion | 87 |
5 The Greening of Philosophy | 121 |
6 Liberating Nature | 161 |
Abolitionism Environmentalism and the Limits of American Liberalism | 199 |
Notes | 217 |
Selected Bibliography | 273 |
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The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics Roderick Frazier Nash Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1989 |