Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Staking out the Green Terrain
1: The Development of Modern Ecopolitical Thought: From Participation and Survival to Emancipation
Introduction
The Environmental Problematic as a Crisis of Participation
The Environmental Problematic as a Crisis of Survival
The Environmental Problematic as a Crisis of Culture and Character and as an Opportunity for Emancipation
The Emancipatory Critique of Conservatism, Liberalism, and Orthodox Marxism
The Anthropocentric/Ecocentric Cleavage within Emancipatory Thought
2. Exploring the Environmental Spectrum: From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism
Introduction
Major Streams of Environmentalism
Resource Conservation
Human Welfare Ecology
Preservationism
Animal Liberation
Ecocentrism
3. Ecocentrism Explained and Defended
Introduction
Ecocentrism Explained
Some Common Criticisms and Misunderstandings
Three Varieties of Ecocentrism
Autopoietic Intrinsic Value Theory
Transpersonal Ecology
Ecofeminism
Part II: An Ecocentric Analysis of Green Political Thought
4. The Ecocentric Challenge to Marxism
Introduction
The Theoretical Roots
Orthodox Eco-Marxism
Humanist Eco-Marxism
Beyond Marxism
5. The Failed Promise of Critical Theory
Introduction
The Legacy of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse
Habermasian Revisions
The Ecocentric Critique
The "Good Life" Revisited
6. Ecosocialism: The Post-Marxist Synthesis
Introduction
The Ecosocialist Critique
Farewell to Scientific Socialism and the Economic Growth Consensus
The Problematic Role of the Working Class
The New Internationalism
The Meaning and Lesson of Ecology according to Ecosocialism
The Ecosocialist Agenda
Evaluation: More Democracy or More Bureaucracy?
An Alternative Green Market Economy
7. Ecoanarchism: The Non-Marxist Visionaries
Introduction
The Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin
Bookchin's Social Hierarchy Thesis
Bookchin's Evolutionary Stewardship Thesis
Ecocommunalism
Monasticism Revisited
Bioregionalism
Does Ecocentrism Demand Ecoanarchism?
Are Humans "Essentially" Cooperative?
The "Other Side" of Decentralization, Local Democracy, and Human Scale
The Ecoanarchist Model of Autonomy as Self-Management
Conclusion
Documentation
Bibliography
Index
