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<p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>Foreword </p> <p>Introduction<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter One. The critique of ecological reason</p> <p>The fabric of liberty</p> <p>The other history. Ecology and the labour question</p> <p>Subsisting, dwelling, knowing</p> <p>Autonomy and abundance<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Two. Sovereignty and property. Political philosophy and the land</p> <p>The political affordances of the land</p> <p>Grotius: Empire and possession</p> <p>Locke: the improving citizen<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Three. Grain and the market. The order of commerce and the organic economy in the eighteenth century</p> <p>The good use of the land</p> <p>The agrarian kingdom of the Physiocrats</p> <p>The liberal pact: Adam Smith</p> <p>Two types of growth</p> <p>Fichte: the ubiquity of the moderns<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Four. The new ecological regime</p> <p>From one liberalism to another</p> <p>The paradoxes of autonomy: Guizot</p> <p>The paradoxes of abundance: Jevons</p> <p>Colonial extractions</p> <p>Extraction-autonomy: Tocqueville<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Five. Industrial democracy. From Proudhon to Durkheim</p> <p>Revolutions and industry</p> <p>Property and labour</p> <p>Proudhon as critic of the liberal pact</p> <p>The fraternal idiom</p> <p>Durkheim: ‘carbon sociology’</p> <p>The political affordances of coal<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Six. The technocratic hypothesis. Saint-Simon and Veblen</p> <p>Material flows and market arrangements</p> <p>The technological normativity of the moderns</p> <p>Laying bare the productive schema </p> <p>Veblen and the cult of efficiency              </p> <p>The engineer and property<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Seven. Nature in a market society</p> <p>Marx as a thinker of autonomy</p> <p>Putting the forest to good use</p> <p>Technology and agronomy</p> <p>Conquering the globe</p> <p>Karl Polanyi: protecting society, protecting nature</p> <p>Disembedding</p> <p>Socialism, liberalism, conservatism<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Eight. The great acceleration and the eclipse of nature</p> <p>Freedom from want</p> <p>Emancipation and acceleration: Herbert Marcuse</p> <p>Oil and atomic power: invisible energies<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Nine. Risks and limits: the end of certainties</p> <p>Alarms and controversies</p> <p>The critique of development and political naturalism</p> <p>Risk and the reinvention of autonomy</p> <p>The impasse: between collapse and resilience<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Ten. The end of the modern exception and political ecology</p> <p>Symmetrizations</p> <p>Authority and composition</p> <p>Under naturalism lies production  </p> <p>Unequal ecological exchange</p> <p>Provincializing critique</p> <p>A new conceptual cartography</p> <p>Changing expectations of justice</p> <p>Autonomy without abundance</p> <p>Towards a new critical subject<br /><br /></p> <p>Chapter Eleven. The self-protection of the Earth.</p> <p>Changing expectations of justice</p> <p>Autonomy without abundance</p> <p>Towards a new critical subject<br /><br /></p> <p>Conclusion. Reinventing liberty<br /><br /></p> <p>Notes</p> <p>Bibliography</p> Index

<p>"Because he speaks the language of political philosophy and not that of environmentalism, Charbonnier manages, paradoxically, to bring questions of the material conditions of existence much closer to what those who pursue the modern ideals of freedom and prosperity need in order to realize them. He might succeed in rendering political ecology mainstream."<br /><b>Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris<br /><br /></b>"Impressive and forensic"<br /><i><b>Times Higher Education<br /><br /></b></i>“An unlikely environmental history of Enlightenment political and economic thought.”<br /><i><b>London Review of Books</b></i></p>

<b>Pierre Charbonnier</b> is a researcher at the CNRS and a member of the Centre d'études européennes; he teaches at Sciences Po, Paris.

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