Charles Taylors Ecological Conversations

The author uses the work of the eminent Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, to develop a critique of those political perspectives that are based on instrumental ways to reason about the world, claiming that such perspectives invariably sever the connections between the social and natural worlds.

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Glen Lehman is Associate Professor in the School of Commerce, University of South Australia. He has published over 70 scholarly articles in a range of prestigious journals: Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of Business Ethics, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Professor Lehman is a member of the British Political Studies Association as well as the British, American and Australian Accounting Associations.

Inhalt
PART I

1. Introduction
2. Basic Issues in Taylor ' 's Philosophy
3. Taylor ' 's Interpretivism, Knowledge and the Natural Environment
4. Taylor ' 's Interpretivism, Social Imaginaries and the Natural Environment
5. Taylor ' 's Metaphysics, Merleau-Ponty and the Natural Environment
   PART II
6. Taylor ' 's Environmentalism and Critique of Utilitarianism and Instrumental Reason
7. Taylor ' 's Critique of Instrumentalism, Liberalism and Procedure in Politics
8. Interpretation, Language and Environmental Values: The Habermas and Taylor Debate
9. Critical Perspectives: The Taylor-Rorty Debate
10. Taylor and Deep Ecology
11. Critical Environmentalism: Marx to Taylor ' 's Interpretivism
12. Conclusion