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Reconstructing nature : alienation, emancipation, and the division of labour / Peter Dickens.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203420756
  • 9780203420751
  • 0203306422
  • 9780203306420
  • 9786610321544
  • 661032154X
  • 9780415089210
  • 0415089212
  • 9781134879038
  • 1134879032
  • 9781134878987
  • 1134878982
  • 9781134879021
  • 1134879024
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reconstructing nature.DDC classification:
  • 304.2/01 20
LOC classification:
  • GF21 .D49 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: In the light of the confusion surrounding the environmental crisis, Peter Dickens explores how the natural world relates to the social. The book aims to find ways of reorganising knowledge in the light of ecological consciousness.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-217) and index.

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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.

In the light of the confusion surrounding the environmental crisis, Peter Dickens explores how the natural world relates to the social. The book aims to find ways of reorganising knowledge in the light of ecological consciousness.

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