Peter Dickens

Reconstructing Nature

Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415089210
• ISBN-10: 0415089212
• Artikelnr.: 54572148

Autorenporträt

Peter Dickens is Reader in Sociology at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 SOCIETY, NATURE AND THE BALKANISATION OF ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE
2 UNDERSTANDING ALIENATION: FROM THE ABSTRACT TO THE CONCRETE 3 REALISM,
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND THE PROBLEM OF 'NATURE' 4 WHO WOULD KNOW?
SCIENCE, LAY KNOWLEDGE AND ALIENATION 5 INDUSTRIALISING NATURE'S POWERS 6
CIVIL SOCIETY: THE RECOVERY OF WHOLENESS? 7 KNOWLEDGE, STATE AUTHORITY AND
THE DIVISION OF LABOUR 8 GREEN UTOPIAS AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR EPILOGUE:
HUMANISING NATURE, NATURALISING HUMANS