Books in the Nature's Meaning series

Deane Curtin puts todays most important social and environmental ethical issues into their historical, political and philosophical contexts, and offers deep insights into the nature of our freedom and its relation to justice in our globalized, commercialized culture.

Written as a series of lectures, this book offers perspectives in environmental philosophy that draw from analytic and continental traditions of philosophy. It argues for a sense of ecological justice consonant with human rights, and provides both human rights and environmental dimensions.

Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice is a comprehensive assessment of the environmental justice movement, examining the achievements and challenges confronting the movement, along with an emphasis on new strategies of environmental problem-solving and innovations in environmental policy.

Increase in awareness of environmental issues has led to the intersection of religion and environment. This work presents a unique way of looking at this topic by relating the Christian word sacrament to the term commons, suggesting that local natural settings and local communities can be a source for respect and compassion.

Critical Theory and Animal Liberation is the first collection to approach our relationship with other animals from the critical or "left" tradition in political and social thought. Breaking with past treatments that have framed the problem as one of "animal rights," the authors instead depict the exploitation and killing of other animals as a political question of the first order. The contributions highlight connections between our everyday treatment of animals and other forms of social power, mass violence, and domination, from capitalism and patriarchy to genocide, fascism, and ecocide.Contributors include well-known writers in the field as well as scholars in other areas writing on animals for the first time. Among other things, the authors apply Freud''s theory of repression to our relationship to the animal, debunk the "Locavore" movement, expose the sexism of the animal defense movement, and point the way toward a new transformative politics that would encompass the human and animal alike.