The Rights of Nature: History of Environmental Ethics (History of American Thought & Culture S.) (History of American Thought & Culture)

by Roderick Nash

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Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended to the nonhuman world.
  • ISBN13 9780299118440
  • Publish Date 30 May 2008 (first published March 1989)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Language English