Authors:
- Clarifies today’s prevalent political alignments over environmental issues
- Focuses on thinkers who welcomed or preached the advent of what is now called the Anthropocene—a global environment largely and increasingly reshaped by human action—as a means and a symbol of social progress and equality
- Defines left and right as opposed worldviews involving the two criteria of aversion to change and tolerance of inequality
- Presents environmentalism and Prometheanism as opposed earthviews differing in their attitudes toward human alteration of nature
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (5 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
About this book
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 vanished from the intellectual scene today.
The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography andAnthropocene studies.
Authors and Affiliations
-
Hamilton, USA
William B. Meyer
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Progressive Environmental Prometheans
Book Subtitle: Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”
Authors: William B. Meyer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29263-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29262-5Published: 07 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80524-5Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29263-2Published: 30 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 220
Topics: Environmental Sociology, Environment, general, Environmental Geography