Pastoral, Progressive and Postmodern Ideas in Environmental Political Thought

The pastoral and progressive traditions have played an integral role in shaping ideas about nature. Both traditions have contributed to an antidualistic view of the relationship between nature and culture; however, the linguistic turn in political theory appears to limit our relationship to nature to that of a social construction. What has been lost in the social constructionist perspective is the idea of "agency" in nature that was an essential feature of identity, as captured in Hegel's synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Romantic expressivism. An environmental ethic that restores agency to nature justifies efforts to rehabilitate nature by supporting its capacity for self-healing. Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristine M. ReedChristine M. Reed is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She recently returned to the faculty after having served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean for Graduate Studies at UNO. Her research interests include public law, environmental ethics and policy, and health ethics and policy. Her work has appeared in Administrative Theory and Praxis, the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics and Public Administration Review. Dr. Reed received her Ph.D. in 1983 from Brown University

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