{"product_id":"affluence-and-freedom-an-environmental-history-of-political-ideas-hardback-9781509543717","title":"Affluence and Freedom; An Environmental History of Political Ideas (Hardback) 9781509543717","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAffluence and Freedom\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Environmental History of Political Ideas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePierre Charbonnier (Author), Andrew Brown (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509543717, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 July 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.635 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Because he speaks the language of political philosophy and not that of environmentalism, Charbonnier manages, paradoxically, to bring questions of the material conditions of existence much closer to what those who pursue the modern ideals of freedom and prosperity need in order to realize them. He might succeed in rendering political ecology mainstream.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Impressive and forensic\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An unlikely environmental history of Enlightenment political and economic thought.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all political ideas, whether or not they endorse ecological ideals, are informed by a certain conception of our relationship to the Earth and to our environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fundamental political categories of modernity were founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. In this way, modern thinkers imagined a political society of free individuals, equal and prosperous, alongside the development of industry geared towards progress and liberated from the Earth’s shackles. Yet this pact between democracy and growth has now been called into question by climate change and the environmental crisis. It is therefore our duty today to rethink political emancipation, bearing in mind that this can no longer draw on the prospect of infinite growth promised by industrial capitalism. Ecology must draw on the power harnessed by nineteenth-century socialism to respond to the massive impact of industrialization, but it must also rethink the imperative to offer protection to society by taking account of the solidarity of social groups and their conditions in a world transformed by climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis timely and original work of social and political theory will be of interest to a wide readership in politics, sociology, environmental studies and the social sciences and humanities generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One. The critique of ecological reason\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fabric of liberty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe other history. Ecology and the labour question\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubsisting, dwelling, knowing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutonomy and abundance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two. Sovereignty and property. Political philosophy and the land\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe political affordances of the land\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrotius: Empire and possession\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocke: the improving citizen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three. Grain and the market. The order of commerce and the organic economy in the eighteenth century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe good use of the land\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe agrarian kingdom of the Physiocrats\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe liberal pact: Adam Smith\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo types of growth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFichte: the ubiquity of the moderns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four. The new ecological regime\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom one liberalism to another\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe paradoxes of autonomy: Guizot\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe paradoxes of abundance: Jevons\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColonial extractions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtraction-autonomy: Tocqueville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five. Industrial democracy. From Proudhon to Durkheim\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevolutions and industry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProperty and labour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProudhon as critic of the liberal pact\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fraternal idiom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDurkheim: ‘carbon sociology’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe political affordances of coal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six. The technocratic hypothesis. Saint-Simon and Veblen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaterial flows and market arrangements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe technological normativity of the moderns\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaying bare the productive schema \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVeblen and the cult of efficiency              \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe engineer and property\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven. Nature in a market society\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarx as a thinker of autonomy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePutting the forest to good use\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnology and agronomy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConquering the globe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKarl Polanyi: protecting society, protecting nature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisembedding\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocialism, liberalism, conservatism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Eight. The great acceleration and the eclipse of nature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreedom from want\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmancipation and acceleration: Herbert Marcuse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOil and atomic power: invisible energies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Nine. Risks and limits: the end of certainties\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlarms and controversies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe critique of development and political naturalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRisk and the reinvention of autonomy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe impasse: between collapse and resilience\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Ten. The end of the modern exception and political ecology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSymmetrizations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthority and composition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnder naturalism lies production  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnequal ecological exchange\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProvincializing critique\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA new conceptual cartography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging expectations of justice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutonomy without abundance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a new critical subject\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven. The self-protection of the Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging expectations of justice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutonomy without abundance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a new critical subject\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion. Reinventing liberty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441807388952,"sku":"9781509543717","price":48.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509543717.jpg?v=1785026369","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/affluence-and-freedom-an-environmental-history-of-political-ideas-hardback-9781509543717","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}