MONOGRAPHS
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Ever wondered why some Green parties succeed while others founder? Or why climate change seems so hard to get on top of? Is 'sustainability' yesterday's news? This short book briskly but comprehensively covers all the principal areas of environmental politics - origins, philosophical ideas, Green parties and movements, and the international dimension. It contains a wide variety of examples to illustrate the issues faced by environmental politics, and compares the ideology of 'ecologism' with other ideologies such as conservatism, liberalism and socialism. What's the way forward? A reformed business-as-usual, or a complete break with it? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
When we think about improving democracy we tend to think in terms of getting more people to speak. But what's the point of everyone speaking if no-one is listening? Listening for Democracy argues for a dialogic approach to democracy in which we learn to converse with one another, prepared both to listen to views with which we disagree, and to listen out for views that we might never have heard before. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014)
What does the environmental citizen do? What does s/he believe? Is there a difference between ecological and environmental citizenship? Citizenship and the Environment argues that ecological citizenship focuses on duties as well as rights, and that what drives it is the idea of the fair distribution of ecological space. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003)
Four editions of Green Political Thought (London, Routledge: 1990, 1995, 2000, 2007), which describes and assesses the political ideology of ‘ecologism’, and compares this radical view of remedies for the environmental crisis with the ‘environmentalism’ of mainstream politics. It examines the relationship between ecologism and other political ideologies, the philosophical basis of ecological thinking, the potential shape of a sustainable society, and the ways to achieve it.
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Can we have both social justice and environmental sustainability, or do they pull in different directions? Can we have one without the other? This book analyses the complex relationship between these two pressing objectives, and it contains a critical examination of the claims of the environmental justice and sustainable development movements that social justice and environmental sustainability are points on the same virtuous circle. The conclusion is drawn that inter‐generational justice is the context in which distributive and sustainability agendas are most closely aligned. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998)
This book charts Sartre's transformation from novelist and apolitical philosopher of existentialism before the Second World War, to a committed defender of Marxism and Marxist method after it. Examining Sartre's post-war work in detail, it shows how the biographies of Baudelaire, Genet and Flaubert are central to his defence of Marxism. It includes a study of posthumous sources, including Volume II of the Critique of Dialectical Reason, and insists on reading Sartre's philosophical development as primarily politically motivated. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Whose side was Ortega on in the Spanish Civil War? Does his philosophy have anything to teach us today? This book offers a general survey of the life and work of the Spanish philosopher and essayist Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), author of the widely-read The Revolt of the Masses. The study is divided into sections on Ortega's political thinking and to his philosophy, rooting these in the context of contemporary Spain and discussing the wider implications of their influence. It examines Ortega's position with regard to the Civil War, his ambivalent espousal of socialism, his emphasis on the importance of the 'select individual' in the modernisation of society and creation of a nación vital, and the appropriation of his ideas by Primo de Rivera in the cause of fascism. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989)