Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment PDF
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Nature, Action and the Future Climatechangeisthegreatchallengeofmodernpolitics.Inthisvolume, leading political theorists and historians investigate how the history of political ideas can help us make sense of it. The contributors add a historicalperspectivetocontemporarydebatesinpoliticaltheory.They also show that the history of political thought offers new directions for thinking about the environment today. By situating the relationship between humansand nature within a widerhistory ofideas, theessays providealternativewaysofthinkingaboutthemostintractableproblems ofenvironmentalpolitics:thestatusofscienceinmoderndemocracies, problemsofcollectiveactionandthechallengesoffatalism. This volume will create new avenues of research for scholars and students in political theory and the history of political thought. It is essentialreadingforundergraduatestudentsinterestedinenvironmen- talchallenges:boththoseinpoliticsseekingahistoricalperspectiveand thoseinhistorywhowanttolinktheirstudiestothepresent. katrinaforresterisAssistantProfessorofGovernmentandSocial StudiesatHarvardUniversity. sophie smith is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the UniversityofOxford. Nature, Action and the Future Political Thought and the Environment Edited by Katrina Forrester HarvardUniversity Sophie Smith UniversityofOxford UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107199286 DOI:10.1017/9781108185509 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN978-1-107-19928-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For our mothers, Lisa Appignanesi and Cindy Smith Contents Listof Figures page ix Listof Contributors x Acknowledgements xi 1 History, Theory and the Environment 1 katrina forrester and sophie smith Part I Time, Nature and the Land 21 2 Is There Any Place for EnvironmentalThinking in Early Modern European Political Thought? 23 annabel brett 3 ‘Sustainability’,Resources and the Destiny ofStates in German Cameralist Thought 43 paul warde 4 Abundance and Scarcity in Geological Time,1784–1844 70 fredrik albritton jonsson 5 Slack 94 malcolm bull Part II Science, Agency and theFuture 113 6 TheNatureofFear and the Fear ofNaturefrom Hobbes to the HydrogenBomb 115 deborah r. coen 7 Between Frankfurt and Vienna:Two Traditions of Political Ecology 133 john o’neill and thomas uebel vii viii Contents 8 Uncertainty,ActionandPolitics:TheProblemofNegligibility 157 melissa lane 9 What Kind ofProblem IsNegligibility? AResponseto Melissa Lane 180 richard tuck 10 Optimism, Pessimism and Fatalism 202 david runciman Afterword: Climate Change in the Light ofthe Past 221 quentin skinner Index 231
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