Mary E. Clark

Ariadne S Thread

The Search for New Modes of Thinking

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a powerful, interdisciplinary introduction to environmental studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-312-01580-0
• 1989
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 147mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 928g
• ISBN-13: 9780312015800
• ISBN-10: 0312015801
• Artikelnr.: 21181409

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - PART I: Nature's Constraints: 'What are the Limits to Growth?' - The Future: A Search for Values - Energy and Exponentials - The Economics of Spaceship Earth - Our Environmental Charge Account Comes Due - PART II: The Human Animal: 'What is Human Nature?' - The Emergence of Human Nature - The Cultural Spectrum - Religion and Worldviews - On Acquiring a Worldview - PART III: Possessive Individualism: 'Whence Comes This Western Worldview?' - From God to Man: Origins of the Western Worldview - The Cult of Efficiency - Alienation - The Loss of the Sacred - PART IV: New Modes of Thinking: 'Where Do We Begin?' - Rethinking Economics - Defusing the Global Powder Keg - Politics: Worldviews in Action - Nuclear 'Defence' - or Conflict Resolution? - Humankind at the Crossroads - Notes - Index