Ecological citizenship

a disruptive influence?

Andrew Dobson

pp. 40-62

in: Chris Pierson, Simon Tormey (eds), Politics at the edge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

From the era of Louis XIV until the Revolution citizenship was not a major concern of French political theory…. Although a few traditional moralists might debate the issue, and although there continued to be debate over the proper relationship between the private and the public interest, there was no serious question any longer of Western civilization’s dedication to the pursuit of wealth (Reisenberg, 1992, p. 253).