Books by William Ophuls

This long-promised sequel to Ophuls's influential and controversial classic Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity is an equally provocative critique of the liberal philosophy of government.

Ophuls examines the contradictory and self-destructive character of political systems founded on Hobbesian (or liberal) premises, concluding that we must now invent a new form of politics, if not a new mode of civilizationone rooted in a fresh conception of natural law that espouses a political paradigm more appropriate to the dawning age of ecology.