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Nature and Social Theory

By Adrian Franklin

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0761963774, 9780761963776, 9781412932042
LCC
GF50 .F73 2002
Open Library ID
OL3581138M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2643512 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
288\283
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book asks the questions can `Man' be separated from `Nature'? Is it valid to seek to `control' Nature? It argues that the firm modern boundaries between nature and culture have been breached and pulls together new strands of thinking about nature which suggest that humanity and nature have never been separate. The argument is developed through a critical discussion of the Romantic ideal of pure nature, unsullied by humanity and largely confined to fragile margins in need of protection and more recent discourses which identify nature with environment, and cast man in the role of a polluter and destroyer.

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