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The author uses the work of the eminent Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, to develop a critique of those political perspectives that are based on instrumental ways to reason about the world, claiming that such perspectives invariably sever the connections between the social and natural worlds.

Charles Taylor's Ecological Conversations: Politics, Commonalities and the Natural Environment

PART I
1. Introduction
2. Basic Issues in Taylor ' 's Philosophy
3. Taylor ' 's Interpretivism, Knowledge and the Natural Environment
4. Taylor ' 's Interpretivism, Social Imaginaries and the Natural Environment
5. Taylor ' 's Metaphysics, Merleau-Ponty and the Natural Environment
PART II
6. Taylor ' 's Environmentalism and Critique of Utilitarianism and Instrumental Reason
7. Taylor ' 's Critique of Instrumentalism, Liberalism and Procedure in Politics
8. Interpretation, Language and Environmental Values: The Habermas and Taylor Debate
9. Critical Perspectives: The Taylor-Rorty Debate
10. Taylor and Deep Ecology
11. Critical Environmentalism: Marx to Taylor ' 's Interpretivism
12. Conclusion