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Rawls and the Environmental Crisis (Paperback)
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Rawls and the Environmental Crisis (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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The liberal political theorist John Rawls, despite remaining
largely silent on 'green concerns', was writing during a time of
increasing awareness that the ecological stability of the earth is
being compromised by human activity. Rawls's reluctance to engage
with such concerns, however, has not stopped several scholars
attempting to 'extend', or 'expand', his works to incorporate this
newfound fear for the ecosystems that support human life. But why
Rawls? What is to be gained from developing the ideas of a theorist
whose primary aim was to establish a system of justice for
contemporaneous, rational, and reasonable citizens of a liberal
polity? This research monograph offers a critical consideration of
the contextual framework within John Rawls's Political Liberalism
and considers its compatibility with the conceptual process of
'greening'. Rawls and the Environmental Crisis argues that Rawls's
perceived neutrality on green concerns is representative of a
widespread societal indifference to environmental degradation and
describes the plurality of methodological and ethical approaches
undertaken by green political theorists in analyzing the
contribution Rawls's theory makes to environmental concerns.
Addressing a series of key debates within contemporary political
philosophy regarding a wider frustration with liberal theory in
general, Rawls and the Environmental Crisis will be of great
interest to researchers in contemporary political philosophy,
environmental ethics, green political theory, stewardship theory,
and those interested in renewing existing conceptions of
deliberative democracy.
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