Political Philosophy

Emma Goldman’s story exemplifies how desire can build a more just society.

To mark the centenary of his birth, we explore André Gorz’s influence on degrowth and political ecology today.

Does the authors’ vision of a coming planetary sovereignty – or of the alternatives – still hold?

An interview with political philosopher Susan Nieman on how Enlightenment values should provide a compass for political action on the Left in times of climate warming.

Neoliberalism is failing to meet the crises of our time. What in its worldview, social and ecological consequences call for putting it to rest?

Abundance and Freedom by Pierre Charbonnier is an environmental history of ideas that links changing patterns in land use to political thought as it developed in the modern era.

From Brexit to climate change and coronavirus-induced economic shock, new issues cut across old divides. But how did they emerge? How is the centre ground made?

Majoritarian systems always disenfranchise somebody. Instead, what politics should do empower people and communities to come to decisions as one.

An interview with sociologist and freelance political writer Dick Pels and future Member of European Parliament Florent Marcellesi from the Spanish Green party Equo, in which they examine the issues at stake when trying to rethink the emotional case for Europe.

Was Marx an environmental activist before the term even existed? According to John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, he was. They claim the work of Karl Marx offers an insight into the relationship between the current ecological crisis and the historical crisis of capitalism.