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The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”

William B Meyer author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:7th Jul '16

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This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. 
Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. 
The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography and Anthropocene studies.

ISBN: 9783319292625

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 4048g

220 pages

1st ed. 2016