The Social Creation of Nature

ISBN-13: 9780801845482 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 200 str.

Neil Evernden; Lorne Leslie Neil Evernden

Opis

One reason for our failure to -save the earth, - argues Neil Evernden, is our disagreement about what -nature- really is--how it works, what constitutes a risk to it, and even whether we ourselves are part of it. Nature is as much a social entity as a physical one. In addition to the physical resources to be harnessed and transformed, it consists of a domain of norms that may be called upon in defense of certain social ideals. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings of nature, The Social Creation of Nature also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature in order to defend what is actually imperiled---wildness, - in which, Thoreau wrote, lies hope for -the preservation of the world.-