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Author Nash, Roderick.

Title The rights of nature : a history of environmental ethics / Roderick Frazier Nash.

Imprint Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1989.

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Description xiii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Series History of American thought and culture
History of American thought and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-278) and index.
Summary Traces the development of the concept that nature has rights, and examines the work of environmental activists.
Contents Ethical extension and radical environmentalism --From natural rights to the rights of nature -- Ideological origins of American environmentalism -- Ecology widens the circle -- The greening of religion -- The greening of philosophy -- Liberating nature -- Abolitionism, environmentalism, and the limits of American liberalism.
Subject Environmental ethics -- History.
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
Environmental ethics. (OCoLC)fst00912979
Human ecology -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00962959
Sociale ecologie.
Milieuvraagstuk.
Filosofische aspecten.
Ethische aspecten.
Indexed Term Environment Ethics History
United States
Genre/Form Former Course Reserve reading.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Nash, Roderick. Rights of nature. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1989 (OCoLC)580165201
ISBN 0299118401
9780299118402
0299118444
9780299118440
Standard No. 9780299118440
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