Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas by Pierre Charbonnier

Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas

Pierre Charbonnier with Andrew Brown (Translator)

328 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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The fundamental political categories of modernity were founded on the idea that we could improve on nature, that we could exert a decisive victory over its excesses and claim unlimited access to earthly resources. In this way, modern thinkers imag...

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