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Transforming the Dream: Ecologism and the Shaping of an Alternative American Vision

Transforming the Dream: Ecologism and the Shaping of an Alternative American Vision

Bednar, Charles Sokol

Paperback

Philosophy20th Century United States HistoryEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0791457168
ISBN13: 9780791457160
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 1 2003
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

Explores the underlying assumptions of environmental studies and the need for a new paradigm for understanding our world.

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.

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