Ethics of Place

Mick Smith is Lecturer in the Division of Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Against the Rationalization of Environmental Values 2. Closed to Nature: Social Theory and Ethics from Durkheim to Habermas 3. Social Theory, Nature, and the Production Paradigm 4. To Speak of Trees: Social Constructivism, Environmental Values, and the Futures of Radical Ecology 5. Environmental Antinomianism: The Moral World Turned Upside Down 6. Against the Enclosure of the Ethical Commons: Radical Environmentalism as an "Ethics of Place" 7. Thin Air and Silent Gravity: The Ecological Self and the Intangibility of the Ethical Subject 8. A Green Thought in a Green Shade: Moral Sense and an Ethics of Place Notes Bibliography Index

"The argument reads like an exciting novel….It makes a major contribution to what is now recognized as a major issue in environmental philosophy—how to formulate an environmental ethics when our received ethics are fundamentally defective." — Arran E. Gare, author of Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis