By William B. Meyer
This booklet is dedicated to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the assumption that humans can and may grasp nature and remake it for the higher. Meyer considers, between others, the query of why Prometheanism this present day is mostly discovered at the political correct whereas environmentalism is at the left.
Chapters study the works of major Promethean thinkers of 19th and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, the United States, and Russia and the way they tied their ideals concerning the earth to a revolutionary, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the common sense of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the explanations it has vanished from the highbrow scene this day.
The revolutionary Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s realizing of the heritage of the guidelines in the back of Prometheanism. This booklet appeals to an individual with an curiosity in environmental politics, environmental heritage, international heritage, geography and Anthropocene studies.
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The criterion covers political, economic, and sociocultural questions alike, from the extent of the franchise to the distribution or redistribution of wealth to gender-based differences in opportunity to the exclusion or inclusion of marginal minorities. ”61 The argument has a good deal of merit, and in practice, much more often than not, the labels of right and left employed alike by scholars and the general public indeed match such attitudes. Traditionalist and neoliberal conservatives have little difficulty in agreeing on this matter.
46 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Conservative,” in The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, ed. Spiller (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971). 184. 47 Richard Pipes, Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005). 48 Friedrich Hayek, “Why I Am Not a Conservative,” in The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition, ed. Ronald Harmowy (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 519–533.
Allan Cameron (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 65. Noël and Thérien, Left and Right in Global Politics, also argued for this criterion as the central basis of the left/right division. 1 Introduction: Earthviews and Worldviews 33 a particular tolerance for the kinds of inequality endorsed by tradition. Ones lacking its sanction they may very well dislike. If the distinction were as simple as Bobbio and others have stated it, it is not easy to see how there could be such a thing as right-wing populism with its strong charge of egalitarianism, though historians and political scientists have abundantly documented the existence in a variety of times and places of something that can only be called by that name.
