The Social Creation of Nature - Couverture rigide

Evernden, Neil

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801843960 ISBN 13 : 9780801843969

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"I think The Social Creation of Nature stands Evernden in relation to the present generation roughly as Thoreau stood in relation to New England Transcendentalism." - Max Oelschlaeger, author of The Idea of Wilderness. "A thoughtful and illuminating book . . . For Evernden, `wildness' is what should be defended and preserved." - New Scientist. 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."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0801843960
• ISBN 13: 9780801843969
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200