Book contents
- Nature, Action and the Future
- Nature, Action and the Future
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 History, Theory and the Environment
- Part I Time, Nature and the Land
- Part II Science, Agency and the Future
- 6 The Nature of Fear and the Fear of Nature from Hobbes to the Hydrogen Bomb
- 7 Between Frankfurt and Vienna
- 8 Uncertainty, Action and Politics
- 9 What Kind of Problem Is Negligibility?
- 10 Optimism, Pessimism and Fatalism
- Afterword
- Index
6 - The Nature of Fear and the Fear of Nature from Hobbes to the Hydrogen Bomb
from Part II - Science, Agency and the Future
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
- Nature, Action and the Future
- Nature, Action and the Future
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 History, Theory and the Environment
- Part I Time, Nature and the Land
- Part II Science, Agency and the Future
- 6 The Nature of Fear and the Fear of Nature from Hobbes to the Hydrogen Bomb
- 7 Between Frankfurt and Vienna
- 8 Uncertainty, Action and Politics
- 9 What Kind of Problem Is Negligibility?
- 10 Optimism, Pessimism and Fatalism
- Afterword
- Index
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- Nature, Action and the FuturePolitical Thought and the Environment, pp. 115 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018