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1006Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1999.The book brings together leading international figures in political theory and sociology, as well as representatives from the political community, to consider the normative issues at stake in the relationship between environmental sustainability and social justice.
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188Citizenship and the environmentOxford University Press. 2003.This is the first book-length treatment of the relationship between citizenship and the environment. Andrew Dobson argues that ecological citizenship cannot be fully articulated in terms of the two great traditions of citizenship - liberal and civic republican - with which we have been bequeathed. He develops an original theory of citizenship, which he calls 'post-cosmopolitan', and argues that ecological citizenship is an example and an inflection of it. Ecological citizenship focuses on duties…Read more
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145Green Political ThoughtRoutledge. 1995.This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published. Andrew Dobson describes and assesses the political ideology of ‘ecologism’, and compares this radical view of remedies for the environmental crisis with the ‘environmentalism’ of mainstream politics. He examines the relationship between ecologism and other politic…Read more
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59Political theory and the ecological challenge (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2006.In recent years the engagement between the environmental 'agenda' and mainstream political theory has become increasingly widespread and profound. Each has affected the other in palpable and important ways, and it makes increasingly less sense for political theorists in either camp to ignore what the other is doing. This book draws together the threads of this interconnecting enquiry in order to assess its status and meaning. Dobson and Eckersley, two renowned scholars in this field, have commis…Read more
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55Biocentrism and Genetic EngineeringEnvironmental Values 4 (3): 227-239. 1995.I consider the contribution that a biocentric perspective might make to the ethical debate concerning the practice of genetic engineering. I claim that genetic engineering itself raises novel ethical questions, and particularly so when confronted with biocentric sensibilities. I outline the nature of these questions and describe the biocentric basis for them. I suggest that fundamentalist opposition to projects of genetic engineering is unhelpful, but that biocentric claims should now be a featu…Read more
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54Freedom and dependency in an environmental ageSocial Philosophy and Policy 26 (2): 151-172. 2009.In this article the implications of our nature as both autonomous and heteronomous beings is discussed. It is suggested that our condition as part-dependent creatures calls for a reconsideration of the nature of both freedom and liberalism, and the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Jean-Paul Sartre is used to illustrate the natural and historical dimensions of our dependency. The conclusion reached is that neither deep ecological re-enchantment nor full-blooded cornucopianism are possible, and that…Read more
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45Genetic engineering and environmental ethicsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (2): 205-. 1997.When God gave humankind dominion over the earth he may not have known exactly what we would be able to do with it. The technical capacities to which the production and reproduction of our everyday life have given rise have grown at an astonishing and, it seems, ever-increasing rate. The instruments that we use to do work on the world have become sharper and more refined, and the implications of human interventions in the nonhuman environment are much more far-reaching than could have been imagin…Read more
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38The Politics of nature: explorations in green political theory (edited book)Routledge. 1993.A balanced and comprehensive survey of current green political ideas - their varying responses to fundamental problems in political theory and their ...
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36Jean-Paul Sartre and the Politics of Reason: A Theory of HistoryCambridge University Press. 1993.Andrew Dobson charts Sartre's transformation from novelist and apolitical philosopher of existentialism, before the Second World War, to a committed defender of Marxism and Marxist method after it. Examining Sartre's post-war work in detail, he shows how the biographies of Baudelaire, Genet and Flaubert, often considered tangential to his main oeuvres, are in fact central to this defence of Marxism, and should therefore be read as acts of political commitment. Andrew Dobson's study of posthumous…Read more
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33El liberalismo y la política de la ecologíaRevista Internacional de Filosofía Política 13 11-20. 1999.
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31Political Theory in a Closed World: Reflections on William Ophuls, Liberalism and AbundanceEnvironmental Values 22 (2): 241-259. 2013.This paper takes as a starting point William Ophul's claim that the last 450 years amount to an 'era of exception' in terms of resource availability. Ophuls suggests that it is no accident that this exceptional era of abundance coincides with the birth and development of liberalism - that liberalism, in other words, would not/could not have occurred without the conditions provided by this era of exception. Some of the ways in which this suggestion might be critically examined are discussed, and …Read more
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31Nature (and Politics)Environmental Values 17 (2): 285-301. 2008.This paper addresses the leitmotif of Alan Holland's work, which is argued here to be a defence of the existence and worth of nonhuman nature. Definitions of politics have always depended on the idea of nature as a contrasting non-political realm, usually turning on the centrality of speech. Referencing the work of Aristotle, Kant and Bentham, I suggest that the instability of the distinction between the human and the nonhuman means that politics, as 'thing and activity', must itself be unstable…Read more
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31Ciudadanía ecológicaIsegoría 32 47-62. 2005.La ciudadanía, como concepto, trata de los derechos y los deberes de los individuos , y en un territorio político determinado . Bajo su vertiente participativa, la ciudadanía está normalmente asociada con la esfera pública, y puede suponer o no el cultivo y ejercicio de ciertas virtudes. El diseño específico de la arquitectura general del concepto de ciudadanía nos define lo que podríamos llamar «ciudadanías adjetivas» -por ejemplo, la ciudadanía liberal, la ciudadanía republicana o la ciudadaní…Read more
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25Ciudadanía ecológica: ¿una influencia desestabilizadora?Isegoría 24 167-187. 2001.En este artículo se abordan dos cuestiones diferentes, aunque interconectadas. La primera es: ¿puede articularse una política de la ecología en términos de ciudadanía? Mi respuesta a esta pregunta es afirmativa, presentando una propuesta de «ciudadanía ecológica». Esto conduce a la segunda cuestión: ¿cómo afecta la ciudadanía ecológica a la noción misma de ciudadanía? Esta cuestión se responde mediante la articulación de una «arquitectura » de la teoría de la ciudadanía que se organiza a través …Read more
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24Sartre and stalin: Critique of dialectical reason, volumeSartre Studies International 3 (1): 1-15. 1997.
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16Green Political Thought: An IntroductionRoutledge. 1990.'Andrew Dobson's book meets the need for an accessible introduction to green political thought ... a useful and interesting book.'- Environmental Politics
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16Genetic Engineering and Environmental EthicsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (2): 205-221. 1997.When God gave humankind dominion over the earth he may not have known exactly what we would be able to do with it. The technical capacities to which the production and reproduction of our everyday life have given rise have grown at an astonishing and, it seems, ever-increasing rate. The instruments that we use to do work on the world have become sharper and more refined, and the implications of human interventions in the nonhuman environment are much more far-reaching than could have been imagin…Read more
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13The Green reader: essays toward a sustainable society (edited book)Mercury House. 1991.Gathers essays about the limits of growth, decentralization, economics, political reform, and "green" philosophy
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12Sartre and Stalin: Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume 2Sartre Studies International 3 (1): 1-15. 1997.
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11Emancipation in the Anthropocene: Taking the dialectic seriouslyEuropean Journal of Social Theory 25 (1): 118-135. 2022.The purpose of this article is to articulate a conception of emancipation for the Anthropocene. First, the Kantian roots of emancipation understood as the capacity of rational beings to act according to self-chosen ends are explained. It is shown that this conception of emancipation sets the realm of autonomous beings humans over the realm of heteronomous beings. Accounts of the ‘humanisation of nature’ are analysed as incomplete attempts to overcome this dualism. It is argued that the root of t…Read more
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9Sartre and Stalin: Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume 2Sartre Studies International 3 (1): 1-15. 1997.
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1Justice and the Environment: Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Dimensions of Social JusticeEnvironmental Values 11 (1): 120-123. 2002.
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1Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social JusticeEnvironmental Values 11 (4): 511-513. 2002.
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1Teñir de verde el liberalismo: entrevista con Robert GoodinRevista Internacional de Filosofía Política 13 201-210. 1999.