Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond

摘要

In his engaging book, Denaturalizing Ecological Politics, Andrew Biro tries to address the complicated relationship people have with nature. He does so by interpreting how earlier political thinkers thought about humanity's relationship to the nonhuman world and offering theoretical distinctions and analytical categories to clarify the perennial challenge of situating ourselves, as a species, within the whole. He believes that by going back and appreciating how some of our greatest thinkers knocked their heads against the enigma of humanity's place in the natural world we will develop a more productive ecological politics.