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

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dickens, Peter, 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Division of labor.
Marxian school of sociology.
Écologie humaine > Philosophie.
Division du travail.
Sociologie marxiste.
Division of labor
Human ecology > Philosophy
Marxian school of sociology
Écologie humaine.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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