Kerry H Whiteside
Biographic Data
| ID | 767543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry H Whiteside |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry H |
| FAMILY NAME | Whiteside |
| SIGNATURE | WHITESIDE K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Government, Franklin and Marshall College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A representative politics of nature? Bruno Latour on collectives and constitutions
France's Charter for the Environment: Of Presidents, Principles and Environmental Protection
France amended its constitution in 2005 to include a Charter for the Environment. The Charter lays out France's commitment to supporting the right to a ‘balanced environment’. This article first traces the Charter's origins to a legacy-building presidential initiative. Jacques Chirac decided to invest in a neglected policy domain in which his own majority had shown little interest. He was obliged to intervene repeatedly in order to bring this pro…
Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Précaution: Un Principe Problématique Mais Nécessaire
Tout en reconnaissant le caractere problematique du principe de precaution, les AA. defendent ici une conception objectiviste et dynamique: objectiviste au sens ou il est inseparable de la nature de certains risques; dynamique, en ce sens qu'il convient d'en reconnaitre lae caractere variable et evolutif. Les AA. cherchent egalement a repondre a certaines objections qui entretiennent doutes et hesitations. Ces reponses deboucheront sur une versio…
French Regulatory Republicanism and the Risks of Genetically Engineered Crops
Les penseurs français de l’écologie politique suivi d'un débat avec Daniel Boy, Dominique Bourg, Yues Cochet et Denis Duclos
Un constat s’impose : les penseurs français sont presque absents des débats et des discussions sur l’écologie politique dans le monde anglophone. C’est un peu surprenant si l’on considère que depuis plus d’un demi-siècle, toute nouveauté philosophique ou méthodologique française - qu’elle provienne par exemple de Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault ou Derrida - a trouvé des adeptes dans le monde anglophone. Des centaines de livres et des milliers d’ar…
Justice Uncertain: Judith Shklar on Liberalism, Skepticism, and Equality
Early in her career, Judith Shklar devised an array of arguments challenging political theorists' assumptions about the possibility of resolving ethical conflicts, understanding human psychology, and validly interpreting social reality. Ideologically, her political skepticism confined her to endorsing little more than constitutionalism and social toleration. Yet this "barebones liberalism" actually fails to justify either those values or liberal …
Systems Theory and Skeptical Humanism in French Ecological Thought
In systems theory, nature appears as an intricate interweaving of homeostatic processes–processes that mankind disrupts at its own peril. For many non‐French ecologists, only respecting nature's “intrinsic value” will avert catastrophe. Such reasoning is rare in France. In its place, theorists like Edgar Morin and Michel Serres promote a systems‐inspired ecologism that skirts the problematic dualism of nature and humanity by questioning skeptical…
Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age. John Gray
French ecosocialism: From Utopia to contract
Ecosocialism runs deeper in the French political ecology movement than most commentators have acknowledged. In the 1970s, André Gorz and René Dumont first tried to draw ecologists’ attention to links between resource depletion, alienating work conditions, and the ujust treatment of Third World countries. Their penchant for Utopian theorising created unresolved tensions between centralising and decentralising approaches to ecological reform. The 1…
René Dumont and the Fate of Political Ecology in France
L'A. etudie l'impact de l'œuvre de Rene Dumont sur le mouvement ecologiste en France. Il examine de quelle maniere ce dernier a contribue a la politisation de l'ecologie dans ce pays. Il s'efforce de mettre en lumiere les caracteristiques de la perspective developpee par Dumont en matiere d'ecologie. Il evalue l'influence de R. Dumont au sein des differentes composantes du mouvement ecologiste en France. Il montre que celui-ci constitue une des s…
Hannah Arendt and Ecological Politics
Urbanisation and the genealogy of freedom in Marx and Tocqueville
From 1789 to 1870, continental Europe’s largest city was also its privileged site of attempts at radical political and social transformations. For the great nineteenth century theorists of revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx, the connection between great cities and radical political movements demanded theoretical elucidation. Elucidation means not only explaining the connection, but also assessing the prospects for human freedom in ur…
Books in Review
Hobbes's Ultranominalist Critique of Natural Right
It is well known that Thomas Hobbes was a nominalist, but the radicalism of his position, this article argues, is frequently under-estimated. Hobbes's remarks on the nature of names, will, deliberation, and truth have an internal logic that, the author contends, is designed to express the necessary subjectivity of the categories of ordinary language. His criticism of those who would make Aristotelian natural light into the regulative concept of p…
Perspectivism and Historical Objectivity: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Covert Debate with Raymond Aron
Consider the prospects for a of history as seen by two of France's most eminent philosophers of the mid-twentieth century. first opens Raymond Aron's work of 1938, Essai sur la theorie de l'histoire dans lmllemagne contemporaine. The traditional of history is completed in Hegel's system. Modern of history begins with the rejection of Hegelianism. idea is no longer to determine all at once the meaning of human historical development.' Aron studies…
Justice Uncertain: Judith Shklar on Liberalism, Skepticism, and Equality
Early in her career, Judith Shklar devised an array of arguments challenging political theorists' assumptions about the possibility of resolving ethical conflicts, understanding human psychology, and validly interpreting social reality. Ideologically, her political skepticism confined her to endorsing little more than constitutionalism and social toleration. Yet this "barebones liberalism" actually fails to justify either those values or liberal …
A representative politics of nature? Bruno Latour on collectives and constitutions
France's Charter for the Environment: Of Presidents, Principles and Environmental Protection
France amended its constitution in 2005 to include a Charter for the Environment. The Charter lays out France's commitment to supporting the right to a ‘balanced environment’. This article first traces the Charter's origins to a legacy-building presidential initiative. Jacques Chirac decided to invest in a neglected policy domain in which his own majority had shown little interest. He was obliged to intervene repeatedly in order to bring this pro…
Hannah Arendt and Ecological Politics
Systems Theory and Skeptical Humanism in French Ecological Thought
In systems theory, nature appears as an intricate interweaving of homeostatic processes–processes that mankind disrupts at its own peril. For many non‐French ecologists, only respecting nature's “intrinsic value” will avert catastrophe. Such reasoning is rare in France. In its place, theorists like Edgar Morin and Michel Serres promote a systems‐inspired ecologism that skirts the problematic dualism of nature and humanity by questioning skeptical…
French ecosocialism: From Utopia to contract
Ecosocialism runs deeper in the French political ecology movement than most commentators have acknowledged. In the 1970s, André Gorz and René Dumont first tried to draw ecologists’ attention to links between resource depletion, alienating work conditions, and the ujust treatment of Third World countries. Their penchant for Utopian theorising created unresolved tensions between centralising and decentralising approaches to ecological reform. The 1…
Hobbes's Ultranominalist Critique of Natural Right
It is well known that Thomas Hobbes was a nominalist, but the radicalism of his position, this article argues, is frequently under-estimated. Hobbes's remarks on the nature of names, will, deliberation, and truth have an internal logic that, the author contends, is designed to express the necessary subjectivity of the categories of ordinary language. His criticism of those who would make Aristotelian natural light into the regulative concept of p…
Perspectivism and Historical Objectivity: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Covert Debate with Raymond Aron
Consider the prospects for a of history as seen by two of France's most eminent philosophers of the mid-twentieth century. first opens Raymond Aron's work of 1938, Essai sur la theorie de l'histoire dans lmllemagne contemporaine. The traditional of history is completed in Hegel's system. Modern of history begins with the rejection of Hegelianism. idea is no longer to determine all at once the meaning of human historical development.' Aron studies…
Hobbes's Ultranominalist Critique of Natural Right
It is well known that Thomas Hobbes was a nominalist, but the radicalism of his position, this article argues, is frequently under-estimated. Hobbes's remarks on the nature of names, will, deliberation, and truth have an internal logic that, the author contends, is designed to express the necessary subjectivity of the categories of ordinary language. His criticism of those who would make Aristotelian natural light into the regulative concept of p…
Books in Review
Urbanisation and the genealogy of freedom in Marx and Tocqueville
From 1789 to 1870, continental Europe’s largest city was also its privileged site of attempts at radical political and social transformations. For the great nineteenth century theorists of revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx, the connection between great cities and radical political movements demanded theoretical elucidation. Elucidation means not only explaining the connection, but also assessing the prospects for human freedom in ur…
Hannah Arendt and Ecological Politics
Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age. John Gray
French ecosocialism: From Utopia to contract
Ecosocialism runs deeper in the French political ecology movement than most commentators have acknowledged. In the 1970s, André Gorz and René Dumont first tried to draw ecologists’ attention to links between resource depletion, alienating work conditions, and the ujust treatment of Third World countries. Their penchant for Utopian theorising created unresolved tensions between centralising and decentralising approaches to ecological reform. The 1…
René Dumont and the Fate of Political Ecology in France
L'A. etudie l'impact de l'œuvre de Rene Dumont sur le mouvement ecologiste en France. Il examine de quelle maniere ce dernier a contribue a la politisation de l'ecologie dans ce pays. Il s'efforce de mettre en lumiere les caracteristiques de la perspective developpee par Dumont en matiere d'ecologie. Il evalue l'influence de R. Dumont au sein des differentes composantes du mouvement ecologiste en France. Il montre que celui-ci constitue une des s…
Systems Theory and Skeptical Humanism in French Ecological Thought
In systems theory, nature appears as an intricate interweaving of homeostatic processes–processes that mankind disrupts at its own peril. For many non‐French ecologists, only respecting nature's “intrinsic value” will avert catastrophe. Such reasoning is rare in France. In its place, theorists like Edgar Morin and Michel Serres promote a systems‐inspired ecologism that skirts the problematic dualism of nature and humanity by questioning skeptical…
Justice Uncertain: Judith Shklar on Liberalism, Skepticism, and Equality
Early in her career, Judith Shklar devised an array of arguments challenging political theorists' assumptions about the possibility of resolving ethical conflicts, understanding human psychology, and validly interpreting social reality. Ideologically, her political skepticism confined her to endorsing little more than constitutionalism and social toleration. Yet this "barebones liberalism" actually fails to justify either those values or liberal …
French Regulatory Republicanism and the Risks of Genetically Engineered Crops
Les penseurs français de l’écologie politique suivi d'un débat avec Daniel Boy, Dominique Bourg, Yues Cochet et Denis Duclos
Un constat s’impose : les penseurs français sont presque absents des débats et des discussions sur l’écologie politique dans le monde anglophone. C’est un peu surprenant si l’on considère que depuis plus d’un demi-siècle, toute nouveauté philosophique ou méthodologique française - qu’elle provienne par exemple de Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault ou Derrida - a trouvé des adeptes dans le monde anglophone. Des centaines de livres et des milliers d’ar…
Précaution: Un Principe Problématique Mais Nécessaire
Tout en reconnaissant le caractere problematique du principe de precaution, les AA. defendent ici une conception objectiviste et dynamique: objectiviste au sens ou il est inseparable de la nature de certains risques; dynamique, en ce sens qu'il convient d'en reconnaitre lae caractere variable et evolutif. Les AA. cherchent egalement a repondre a certaines objections qui entretiennent doutes et hesitations. Ces reponses deboucheront sur une versio…
Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk (Urban and Industrial Environments)
France's Charter for the Environment: Of Presidents, Principles and Environmental Protection
France amended its constitution in 2005 to include a Charter for the Environment. The Charter lays out France's commitment to supporting the right to a ‘balanced environment’. This article first traces the Charter's origins to a legacy-building presidential initiative. Jacques Chirac decided to invest in a neglected policy domain in which his own majority had shown little interest. He was obliged to intervene repeatedly in order to bring this pro…
A representative politics of nature? Bruno Latour on collectives and constitutions
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