EAN: 9781906165178

ECO-REPUBLIC - MELISSA LANE GEBUNDEN

The transition to a sustainable society is a profound challenge to ethics and political thought
as well as to humankind. It is comparable to the great transitions of the past  such as the
Enlightenment. Yet the distinguished tradition of groundbreaking ideas has not so far been
widely invoked in public debates in this area. What can we learn from the history of ethics and
political thought to enable us to cope with climate change? Climate change and sustainability
are not just technical problems or problems in applied ethics: they require a new political
imagination. Melissa Lane identifies Key messages - on the role of the individual  the
household  the nature of citizenship  and the significance of the imagination - which bring the
wisdom of the past to bear on the challenges of the present. Using these resources  and
building on these insights  she calls for the construction of a 'new normal'  remaking our
imagination of our society and our selves. Drawing on Plato's Republic as a model while also
challenging aspects of Platonic politics  the book sets out the political and psychological
challenges that we face in moving beyond the psycho-political settlement of modern commercial
society.

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