Neil Evernden, Lorne Leslie Neil Evernden

The Social Creation of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

"I think The Social Creation of Nature stands Evernden in relation to the present generation roughly as Thoreau stood in relation to New England Transcendentalism."--Max Oelschlaeger, author of The Idea of Wilderness. "A thoughtful and illuminating book... For Evernden, wildness' is what should be defended and preserved."--New Scientist. One reason for our failure to "save the earth," argues Neil Evernden, is our disagreement about what "nature" really is--how it works, what constitutes a risk to it, and even whether we ourselves are part of it. Nature is as much a social entity as a physical one. In addition to the physical resources to be harnessed and transformed, it consists of a domain of norms that may be called upon in defense of certain social ideals. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings of nature, The Social Creation of Nature also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature in order to defend what is actually imperiled--"wildness," in which, Thoreau wrote, lies hope for "the preservation of the world."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780801845482
• ISBN-10: 0801845483
• Artikelnr.: 21237350

Autorenporträt

Neil Evernden is associate professor of environmental studies at York University, Oantario, Canada. He is the author of The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment.