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W. J. M. MacKenzie Prize winner for the best book in Political Science published in 1999
‘Of the sixteen books submitted, some of high quality, this one was agreed to be in a class of its own…. The book breaks new ground in ‘green’ political theory, and in an engaging manner, educates those anxious to be good citizens and challenges those responsible for public policy, in a highly topical and globally important discourse.… Barry's immanent critique, his insistence that we build on what there is, his resistance to the easy anti-statist line, his sane and balanced outlook, is intellectually brave in this often rather clamant territory. The analysis of ecological morality, individual stewardship, and collective responsibility provides an original and seminal treatise that advances the discipline as a whole’ - Professor Andrew Dunsire
Conclusion: Nature, Virtue and Progress
Conclusion: Nature, Virtue and Progress
- Green Politics, Nature and Progress 249
- Green Politics and Virtue 255
- Future Issues 261
- ‘Only Connect’ 263
- Notes 264
Contents
The aim in this book has been to rethink green politics, to outline the contours of a green political theory which, while being consistent with the values and principles of green ideology, explores them in a broader, less constraining context. In keeping with a critical-reconstructive approach, I hope to have suggested a conception of green political theory which greens can identify with, if not fully endorse, while at the same time presenting green arguments which can appeal to non-greens concerned about social-environmental problems. While by no means presenting a fully fledged, complete account of green political theory, this book is intended as ...
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