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Hobbes is a Fungi: Civil Society Rooted in Nature
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Camp, Kaitlyn
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2919-055X
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524839277313728
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2018, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Political Science (Arts and Sciences).
Abstract
Thomas Hobbes uses a metaphor about mushrooms to define humans in the state of nature. In light of recent research regarding mycorrhizal fungi, this thesis examines the descriptive and prescriptive implications of a civil society structured as though people were truly like mushrooms. By drawing upon the intersection between political theory and ecology, this thought experiment has profound implications for creating a society where harmony is maintained through a sustainable balance of conflict in order to guarantee the shared flourishing of human, nonhuman, and nonliving components of the environment.
Committee
Julie White (Advisor)
Pages
75 p.
Subject Headings
Environmental Philosophy
;
Philosophy
;
Political Science
Keywords
Thomas Hobbes
;
mycorrhizal fungi
;
mycorrhizal network
;
mushroom metaphor
;
Leviathan
;
thought experiment
;
environmental political theory
;
ecofeminism
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conflict
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human
;
nonhuman
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Camp, K. (2018).
Hobbes is a Fungi: Civil Society Rooted in Nature
[Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524839277313728
APA Style (7th edition)
Camp, Kaitlyn.
Hobbes is a Fungi: Civil Society Rooted in Nature.
2018. Ohio University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524839277313728.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Camp, Kaitlyn. "Hobbes is a Fungi: Civil Society Rooted in Nature." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1524839277313728
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