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CitizenshipIn Andrew Dobson & Robyn Eckersley (eds.), Political theory and the ecological challenge, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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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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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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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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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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24Sartre and stalin: Critique of dialectical reason, volumeSartre Studies International 3 (1): 1-15. 1997.
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189Citizenship 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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An Introduction to the Politics and Philosophy of José Ortega y GassetCambridge University Press. 1989.This book provides a general survey of the life and work of the Spanish philosopher and essayist Ortega y Gasset, author of the widely read The Revolt of the Masses. Dr Dobson divides his study into sections devoted to Ortega's political thinking and to his philosophy, rooting these in the context of contemporary Spain and discussing the wider implications of their influence. He examines Ortega's position with regard to the Civil War, his ambivalent espousal of socialism, his emphasis on the imp…Read more
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12Sartre and Stalin: Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume 2Sartre Studies International 3 (1): 1-15. 1997.
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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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Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume II : The Intelligibility of History (review)Radical Philosophy 63. 1993.
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