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Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour

By Peter Dickens

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1996
ISBN
0415089212, 9780415089210
LCC
GF21 .D49 1996
Open Library ID
OL794104M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2619097 bytes)
Series
International Library of Sociology
Edition
1
Pages
240\235
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world. He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science and rationality rather than rejecting them and, in the process, humanity as well as the non-human world will benefit.

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