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The Progressive Environmental Prometheans: Left-Wing Heralds of a Good Anthropocene
William B. Meyer
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Hardback. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; RGB; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 275 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this progressive Prometheanism and the reasons it has ... Read more
This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this progressive Prometheanism and the reasons it has ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319292625
SKU
V9783319292625
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99-15
About William B. Meyer
William B. Meyer is Associate Professor of Geography at Colgate University. He is the author of Human Impact on the Earth (1996), Americans and Their Weather: A History (2000; updated edition, 2014), and The Environmental Advantages of Cities (2013), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.
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