Reconstructing Nature : Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour.
Title:
Reconstructing Nature : Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour.
Author:
Dickens, Peter.
ISBN:
9780203420751
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (235 pages)
Series:
International Library of Sociology
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- SOCIETY, NATURE AND THE BALKANISATION OF ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE -- UNDERSTANDING ALIENATION: FROM THE ABSTRACT TO THE CONCRETE -- REALISM, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND THE PROBLEM OF 'NATURE' -- WHO WOULD KNOW? SCIENCE, LAY KNOWLEDGE AND ALIENATION -- INDUSTRIALISING NATURE'S POWERS -- CIVIL SOCIETY: THE RECOVERY OF WHOLENESS? -- KNOWLEDGE, STATE AUTHORITY AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR -- GREEN UTOPIAS AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR -- EPILOGUE: HUMANISING NATURE, NATURALISING HUMANS -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world. He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science and rationality rather than rejecting them and, in the process, humanity as well as the non-human world will benefit.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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