Review article

GREEN POLITICAL THINKING AND SURVIVAL CRISIS

Branka Bjelac ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

The paper deals with the environmental political thinking represented mainly by different theoretical orientations within the so called Green Thinking. After the seriousness of environmental problems had brought fundamental changes in the approach to the topics of representational democracy and human survival, so that they became a political issue, various ways of comprehending and covering ecological emancipation have shown up. Beginning with the basic ecophilosophical split into anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, which was the field for developing various directions of the Green Political Thinking, main features of the basic orientations in this thinking are being presented. These are following: resource sustentation, ecology of human welfare, preservationism, liberation of animals and ecocentrism together with the autopoietic intrinsic value theory, transpersonal ecology and ecofeminism. Basic characteristics of ecomarxism, ecosocialism, ecoanarchism, ecocommunalism, bioregionalism, deep ecology and especially Murray Bookchin's social ecology are also being presented.

Keywords

environmentalism; Green politics; political thinking; theoretical orientation

Hrčak ID:

139409

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139409

Publication date:

15.9.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian german

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