Wild knowledge : science, language, and social life in a fragile environment / Will Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Will.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Language and languages.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text argues that scientific knowledge is primarily an effort at social legitimation, and that its conceptual incoherence as knowledge is now becoming ecological incoherence as social practice.

Contents:

Introduction: ecological incoherence; The desperate privilege of science; Belief systems; Nature as politics; The mathematics of knowledge; The knowing individual; Scientific social theory; The dilemma of rationality; The reference to language; The ecology of language.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8424-3

0-8166-2051-2

OCLC:

230205022