An Ethics of Place: Radical Ecology, Postmodernity, and Social TheorySUNY Press, 2001 M03 29 - 287 pages Mick Smith links together the concepts of the ecological self and an environmental ethos an ethics of place as a way to re-engage the moral concerns of radical ecological theories. Best understood as an ethical critique of modernity, radical ecological theory challenges and extends the problematic moral framework now used within the disciplines of philosophy and the social sciences. Remaining true to the spirit of radical ecology, Smith engages with current debates about the status of moral values and theories, the social construction of nature, deep ecology, and non-violent direct action in a manner that is broadly interdisciplinary, original, and compelling. |
Contents
Against the Rationalization of Environmental Values | 23 |
Closed to Nature Social Theory and Ethics from Durkheim to Habermas | 55 |
Social Theory Nature and the Production Paradigm | 79 |
To Speak of Trees Social Constructivism Environmental Values and the Futures of Radical Ecology | 109 |
Environmental Antinomianism The Moral World Turned Upside Down | 131 |
Against the Enclosure of the Ethical Commons Radical Environmentalism as an Ethics of Place | 151 |
Thin Air and Silent Gravity The Ecological Self and the Intangibility of the Ethical Subject | 169 |
A Green Thought in a Green Shade Moral Sense and an Ethics of Place | 191 |
Notes | 221 |
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Page 1 - Mean while the Mind, from pleasures less, Withdraws into its happiness: The Mind, that Ocean where each kind Does streight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other Worlds, and other Seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green Thought in a green Shade. —Andrew Marvel!, ‘The Garden
Page 3 - awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. (Benjamin,