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The Green Light : A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement by Bernard Charbonneau, Piers H. G. Stephens, Christian Roy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"The Green Light ('Le Feu Vert') offers an original and profound exploration of the roots of environmental philosophy and the Anthropocene. Bernard Charbonneau situates the wellspring of the ecological movement in the dialectics of Nature and Freedom, and their needful but uneasy joining against the totalizing system of technological society that threatens them both. Using this paradoxical tension as a yardstick, he probes the ways in which concepts of Nature have developed as industrialization became second nature and jeopardized the original, taken for granted until its advent. This allows Charbonneau to explain how movements and policies claiming to deal with this issue have gone wrong. A spirited critique of how the environmental movement has taken shape in relation to philosophy, politics, theology and contemporary culture, this book written in 1980 is representative of an oft-overlooked strand of French environmentalist thought, as a look back on its first decade in the public eye by a man who had originated political ecology half a century earlier. Charbonneau can be said to have prepared the way for many current concerns within environmental thought: the tension between lib

Who reads The Green Light : A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement?

Author

Bernard Charbonneau, Piers H. G. Stephens, Christian Roy

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350027077

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Nature, Economics

Updated

2026-03-24