{"product_id":"the-green-light-9781350027091","title":"The Green Light","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Charbonneau (1910-1996) \u003c\/b\u003ewas a French philosopher who specialised in political ecology and critiques of technology. Today he is considered by a growing number of environmentalists as a visionary forerunner of political ecology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Roy\u003c\/b\u003e is a cultural historian (Ph.D. McGill 1993), an art and cinema critic, and a multilingual translator. He is an expert on the lives and thought of both Bernard Charbonneau and Jacques Ellul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis important book should have been translated more than 30 years ago. Yet it is even more relevant now, in a world undergoing global climate change, than it has ever been. Daniel Cerezuelle, Christian Roy, and Piers H.G. Stephens are all to be praised for making a book by Bernard Charbonneau available to English language readers. -- Carl Mitcham, International Professor of Philosophy of Technology, Renmin University of China, China, and Emeritus Professor of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, USA\u003cbr\u003eThe ecological emergency is so systemic and so vast that the human imagination is frozen before it. Unable to believe that things could be different, around the world people consent to fascist-paranoid politics that relieve us of the burden of thinking and visualizing. Christian Roy’s lovely translation of Charbonneau’s masterpiece allows us to un-freeze, and for the sake of all lifeforms on Earth, imagine what William Blake meant by a “mental fight” for our ecological future. -- Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Piers H.G. Stephens Foreword by Daniel Cérézuelle    Author’s Foreword: The Heart of the Subject  Part I SEEDS: The Origins of the Ecological Rebellion   1. Origins Prehistory of the Ecological Movement A Great Silence   2. Ecology Year 01 Where the thesis, i.e. science and America, generates its own antithesis The Green Light in France   3. The Various Constellations of the Ecological Nebula At the Center and on the Margins of the Maelstrom Where Nature switches from Right to Left Communal Microcosms and Silent Majority  Part II ROOTS: Foundations of the Ecological Movement   4. Nature or freedom? Nature Freedom The Contradiction Between Nature and Freedom   5. Nature and Freedom Nature and Man United in the Human Environment: Town and Country Nature and Freedom United in the Existence of Each Human Being Nature and Freedom Associated in History   6. Nature and Christianity The Rupture of Creation Incarnation Christianity and the Ecological Movement   Part III DISEASES AND POISONS: Contradictions and Shortcomings of the Ecological Nebula   7. Nature, Freedom and the Ecological Movement The Temptation of Naturist Fundamentalism A Critique of Ecologism The Libertarian Temptation A Critique of the Ecological Movement’s Anarchistic and Non-Violent Strand Beyond the Ecological Right and Left   8. A Fruit Still Green Ecology without a Doctrine Weak Points of Ecological Thinking Shortcomings in Economic and Especially Social Reflection   9. Recycling Creation or Recyclable Social By-Product? Recycling Through Fashion and Fashionistas Recycling Through Techno-Structure Recycling Through Spectacle   10. Recycling Through Politicization-Depoliticization From Political Commitment to Withdrawal from Politics Recycling Through Depoliticization Recycling Through Politicization  Part IV: FRUITS: Sketch of an Ecological Politics   11. Topical Utopia Ecological Conversion A Mediation Between Opposites A Revolution for That Which Exists   12. The Ecological Community The Personal Basis Language and Ecological Reason Ecological Society and Meetings The Ecological Order   13. Ecological Politics Ecology and Power Elements of Ecological Tactics in Politics A Non-Economist Economic Policy Self-Management and Ecological Self-Sufficiency Agricultural Policy and the Dis-Organization of Leisure   Envoi – Concluding Words   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407499108695,"sku":"9781350027091","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350027091.jpg?v=1730499582","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-green-light-9781350027091","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}