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Record Nr.

UNINA9910171001703321

Autore

Dickens Peter <1940->

Titolo

Reconstructing nature : alienation, emancipation, and the division of labour / / Peter Dickens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-87902-4

1-134-87903-2

0-203-30642-2

1-280-32154-7

0-203-42075-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology.

Disciplina

304.2/01

Soggetti

Human ecology - Philosophy

Division of labor

Marxian school of sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.