A regular feature calling attention to important books and articles that CHN staff, board, and collaborating scholars are reading and recommend. Quot libros, quam breve tempus.
J.B. Callicott, Thinking Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic (Oxford University Press, 2013).
C. Crouch, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism (Polity Press, 2011).
A. Honneth, Freedom’s Right: the Social Foundations of Democratic Life (Columbia University Press, 2014).
D. Jamieson, Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed—and What It Means for Our Future (Oxford University Press, 2014).
G.E. Kaebnick, Humans in Nature: The World as We Find It and the World as We Create It (Oxford University Press, 2014).
R.W. Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed Editions, 2013).
E. Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt and Company, 2014).
S.A. Marglin, The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community (Harvard University Press, 2008).
A.L. Peterson, Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire (Columbia University Press, 2009).
T. Morris, Hans Jonas’s Ethic of Responsibility: From Ontology to Ecology (State University of New York Press, 2013).
T. Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology at the End of the World (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
W. Nordhaus, The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World (Yale University Press, 2013).