What is Ecologism?

About the lecture

In this module, we develop a definition of ecologism, thinking in particular about: (i) ecologism’s roots in the nineteenth-century science of ecology; (ii) the main distinctions that philosopher Arne Naess identifies between the ‘shallow’ and ‘deep, long-range’ ecology movements; and (iii) Naess’s key conceptual contributions to ecologism, including his ‘total field’ view of nature, ‘biospherical egalitarianism’, and ‘classless diversity’.

About the lecturer

Mathew Humphrey is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Nottingham. He specialises in three areas of political theory in particular: (i) the theory of environmental politics; (ii) analytical political philosophy and theories of justice; and (iii) theories of ideology.