The Philosophy of Social Ecology
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The Philosophy of Social Ecology

Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

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eBook - ePub

The Philosophy of Social Ecology

Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

About this book

What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on: invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity in diversity, in the service of ever expanding freedom. Refreshingly polemical and deeply philosophical, they take issue with technocratic and mechanistic ways of understanding and relating to, and within, nature. More importantly, they develop a solid, historically and politically based ethical foundation for social ecology, the field that Bookchin himself created and that offers us hope in the midst of our climate catastrophe.

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Table of contents

  1. Also by Murray Bookchin
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface to the Third Edition
  4. Introduction: A Philosophical Naturalism
  5. Toward a Philosophy of Nature: The Bases for an Ecological Ethics
  6. Freedom and Necessity in Nature: A Problem in Ecological Ethics
  7. Thinking Ecologically: A Dialectical Approach
  8. History, Civilization, and Progress: Outline for a Criticism of Modern Relativism
  9. Afterword: Todd McGowan
  10. Index
  11. Murray Bookchin
  12. Copyright