Di Stefano, ChristineLambacher, Jason Frederick2013-07-252013-07-252013-07-252013Lambacher_washington_0250E_12041.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/23458Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2013This dissertation examines the species extinction crisis as a matter of environmental political theory. By engaging the anthropocentrism/ecocentrism debate, literature in green deliberative democracy and green civic republicanism, and the work of Hans Jonas and Hannah Arendt, among others, I explore the challenges of the extinction predicament in light of key concepts such as freedom, responsibility, and wildness.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.democracy; environmental political theory; freedom; responsibility; wilderness; wildnessPolitical Sciencepolitical scienceThesis