Why has radical ecological criticism had so little impact, despite the urgency of the issues it highlights? This and other questions are answered in this challenging theoretical critique of ecological thought.

Part 1 Preliminaries; Chapter 1 Ecological Concern and Theoretical Enquiry; Chapter 2 Ecology in Crisis; Chapter 3 Towards Post-Ecologism; Part 2 Understanding Ecologism - Critical Theory; Chapter 4 Alienation and Reconciliation - Horkheimer and Adorno; Chapter 5 Pluralisation and Reflexivity - Ulrich Beck; Part 3 Deconstructing Ecologism - Systems Theory; Chapter 6 Autopoietic Systems and Functional Differentiation - Niklas Luhmann I; Chapter 7 Ecological Communication - Niklas Luhmann II; Part 4 Post-Ecologism; Chapter 8 Ecology Without Identity; Chapter 9 Avoiding Ecologist Fallacies; Chapter 10 Managing the Transition to Post-Ecologist Politics;

Ingolfur Blühdorn is a Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Bath. His previous publications include The Green Agenda: Environmental Politics and Policy in Germany (co-edited with Frank Krause and Tom Scharf).