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Reconstructing nature : alienation, emancipation, and the division of labour / Peter Dickens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Peter, 1940-
- Series:
- International library of sociology.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Philosophy.
- Human ecology.
- Division of labor.
- Marxian school of sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-87902-4
- 1-134-87903-2
- 0-203-30642-2
- 1-280-32154-7
- 0-203-42075-6
- 9780203420751
- OCLC:
- 647374501
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