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Transforming the Dream
Charles Sokol Bednar
其他書名
Ecologism and the Shaping of an Alternative American Vision
出版State University of New York Press, 2012-02-01
主題Political Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicyPhilosophy / PoliticalHistory / United States / 20th Century
ISBN07914868699780791486863
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MDoJVs5XPikC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Transforming the Dream challenges American mainstream culture's obsession with unlimited economic and industrial growth. Drawing on works by Roy Morrison, Murray Bookchin, Daniel C. Maguire, Paul Taylor, C. A. Bowers, and others, Bednar critiques the ideological status quo, offering an alternative ecological economics, political economy, ethics, and pedagogy. This new outlook on humankind's relationship to the environment is, he argues, better positioned to address critical issues of the twenty-first century, including the ecological and social limits of economic growth, the social and economic requisites for authentic democracy, the ethics of human interaction with the natural environment, and the educational curricula and practices required to promote ecological literacy. Bednar's perspective provides the opportunity to develop economic and political institutions that permit a sustainable relationship with the environment and offers a socially richer and more fulfilling life for the individual than the "American Dream" promised by the current system.