Environment and social theory / [manuscript] /

Barry, John, 1966-

Environment and social theory / [manuscript] / John Barry. - 2nd ed. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - p. cm. - Routledge introductions to the environment .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Nature", "environment" and social theory -- The role of the environment historically within social theory -- The uses of "nature" and the nonhuman world in social theory : pre-enlightenment and enlightenment accounts -- Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world -- Right-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- Left-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics -- Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought -- The environment and economic thought -- Risk, environment and postmodernism -- Ecology, biology and social theory -- Greening social theory.

9780415376167 (paperback) 9780415376167 (softcover : alk. paper)

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Human ecology--Philosophy.
Human ecology--Religious aspects.
Social sciences--Philosophy.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.

GF21 / .B28 2007

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