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. Stepping back somewhat, I now propose to offer some ecocritical political orientation, starting with some of the standard ‘green’ political positions on which environmental humanities stands or, at its most extreme edges, deconstructs or makes newly radical. Andrew Dobson, in his useful introduction to Green Political Thought , defines ‘political ecology’ (a term used purposefully by T. J. Demos in Decolonizing Nature , for instance) as a viewpoint that holds that ‘a sustainable and fulfilling existence presupposes radical changes in our relationship with the non
. But through it all, there was a belief in the actual unity of Christendom, however variously felt and expressed. This belief was a fundamental condition of all medieval political thought and activity. It reverberated through late medieval visions of a peaceful world. John of Paris expressed it in his plea for a government of Christendom ( De potstate regia et papali or ‘On Royal and Papal Power’ [ c. 1302]). And Dante Alighieri called for the establishment of Christian world state in his De monarchia (‘On Monarchy’ [ c. 1313]). Dante’s ideal monarch should be
-century theories were built around a mechanical vision of self-equilibrium, then nineteenth-century theories introduced an organic image of ‘progress’ or ‘evolution’. Chapter 6 first shows how international interaction was altered by the economic innovations of England’s Industrial Revolution and by the political ideals of the American and French Revolutions. The Enlightenment universalism of the revolutionaries triggered local and particularist reactions on the Continent. They fired up the modern idea of nationalism and of entire systems of political thought – most prominent
, as Matthew Ryan noted, that all case studies are implicitly comparative (Ryan, 2017 : 195), research by interpretive political scientists, as opposed to historical sociologists attuned to politics like Kumar, placed less explicit emphasis on the comparative dimension of analysis and was stronger on traditions of political thought from and within which current thinking about contemporary English nationalism emerged. Making a differentiation between ‘politics’ and ‘the political’, this research work on contemporary English nationalism allowed for fine-grained and in
, old and dying civilisation and pinned his hope on China’s youth. For the first time in Chinese political thought and history, the young rather than the more established were seen and even tasked with the prospect of reforming the country. He had placed his hope in the young because they were more open to what is new, which meant learning new things from the West and shaping a modern future. Liang’s thesis is loud and clear towards the end of his long prose poem On Youth : When they are intelligent, then the country is intelligent When
Zombies , p. 76. 31 Y. Harari and D. Perkins, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (London: Harvill Secker, 2014 ). 32 On the role of apocalyptic rhetoric in the Trump administration, see A. McQueen, ‘The Apocalypse in U.S. political thought’, Foreign Affairs (18 July 2016 ), and A. McQueen, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 ). 33 N. Slyomovics, ‘The right-wing agenda of “The Walking Dead”, from Trump to Netanyahu’, Haaretz (14 April 2017). 34 M. Loyola, ‘The Walking Dead’s political
–7. Kavanagh , D ., et al . ( 2006 ) British Politics ( 5th edition ), Oxford University Press : chapter 4. Kingdom , J . ( 2003 ) Government and Politics in Britain: An Introduction ( 3rd edition ), Polity : chapter 2. Leach , R ., et al . ( 2006 ) British Politics , Palgrave : chapter 6. Moran , M . ( 2005 ) Politics and Governance in the UK , Palgrave : chapter 15. Other texts Adams , I . ( 1998 ) Ideologies and Politics in Britain Today , Manchester University Press . Foote , G . ( 1997 ) The Labour Party’s Political Thought
– not in the welcome sense, advocated by green thinkers, of reminding us of how deeply “culture” is embedded in and part of “nature”, but as emergent, interference phenomena. As a result of scale effects, what is self-evident and rational at one scale may will be destructive or unjust at another.’ 59 This sentiment speaks directly to a fundamental principle in green political thought, namely the acceptance of pervasive and complex interconnectedness in any environment or in any phenomenon, even if, as Clark registers, the effects are counter
Rachel Foxley , The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2013 ), p. 43 . 14 Ibid., p. 179
of man [is] solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short’ ( 1951 , pp. 185f). Benedict de Spinoza agreed. In a sketch from 1670, Spinoza explains that in the state of nature neither reason nor morality can exist; thus, each man ‘looks to his own interest, according to his own view and acts at his own advantage, and endeavours to preserve that which he loves and to destroy that which he hates’ (Spinoza 1951b , p. 211). This image of the lawless state of nature became a central concept in seventeenth-century political thought. It drove many thinkers to