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The Progressive Environmental Prometheans: Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene” de William B. Meyer

The Progressive Environmental Prometheans: Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”

Autor William B. Meyer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 iul 2016
This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. 

Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. 

The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography andAnthropocene studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319292625
ISBN-10: 3319292625
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: IX, 220 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

- Introduction: Earthviews and Worldviews.- Chapter 1: The Technocratic Prometheans: Engineering Society and Environment.- Chapter 2: The Scientific Prometheans: Studying Nature to Improve It.- Chapter 3: The Prophetic Prometheans: Envisioning a New World and New Earth.- Conclusion: The Politics of Prometheanism Revisited.

Notă biografică

William B. Meyer is Associate Professor of Geography at Colgate University. He is the author of Human Impact on the Earth (1996), Americans and Their Weather: A History (2000; updated edition, 2014), and The Environmental Advantages of Cities (2013), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.

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This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. 

Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. 

The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography andAnthropocene studies.

William B. Meyer is Associate Professor of Geography at Colgate University. He is the author of Human Impact on the Earth (1996), Americans and Their Weather: A History (2000; updated edition, 2014), and The Environmental Advantages of Cities (2013), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Caracteristici

Clarifies today’s prevalent political alignments over environmental issues Focuses on thinkers who welcomed or preached the advent of what is now called the Anthropocene—a global environment largely and increasingly reshaped by human action—as a means and a symbol of social progress and equality Defines left and right as opposed worldviews involving the two criteria of aversion to change and tolerance of inequality Presents environmentalism and Prometheanism as opposed earthviews differing in their attitudes toward human alteration of nature