Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change

by Christopher Shaw

Book Overview

In this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers.

The language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change arose in the post-World War II liberal institutions of the West. This language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and ideological challenge climate change poses to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138615064
• ISBN13: 9781138615069
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"