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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dickens, Peter, 1940- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 1996.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.