Environment and Social Theory Book

List of illustrations     vii
Series editors' preface     ix
Preface to second edition     xiii
Introduction: the environment and social theory     1
'Nature', 'environment' and social theory     7
The role of the environment historically within social theory     31
The uses of 'nature' and the nonhuman world in social theory: pre-Enlightenment and Enlightenment accounts     51
Twentieth-century social theory and the nonhuman world     83
Right-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics     119
Left-wing reactions to the environment and environmental politics     154
Gender, the nonhuman world and social thought     183
The environment and economic thought     205
Risk, environment and postmodernism     242
Ecology, biology and social theory     271
Greening social theory     294
Glossary     316
Internet resources and sites     319
Bibliography     324
Index     345