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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455462003321

Autore

Fisher Andy <1963->

Titolo

Radical ecopsychology [[electronic resource] ] : psychology in the service of life / / Andy Fisher ; foreword by David Abram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8892-6

0-585-46372-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in radical social and political theory

Disciplina

155.9/1

Soggetti

Environmental psychology

Nature - Psychological aspects

Environmentalism - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

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 (p. 267-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Radical Ecopsychology""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD by David Abram""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PART I: GROUNDWORK""; ""1. THE PROJECT OF ECOPSYCHOLOGY""; ""The Terrain of Ecopsychology""; ""Getting a Handle on the Project: Four Tasks""; ""A Naturalistic and Experiential Approach""; ""2. THE PROBLEM WITH NORMAL""; ""Discursive Problems""; ""Between the Human and the Natural""; ""In Praise of the Not-So-Normal: The Hermeneutic Dimension""; ""The Symbolic or Metaphorical Nature of Reality and the Discursive Primacy of Rhetoric""; ""PART II: NATURE AND EXPERIENCE""

""3. BEGINNING WITH EXPERIENCE""""“Returning to Experience�""; ""Talking About Experience""; ""Experiential Destruction and Ecological Crisis""; ""4. FROM HUMANISTIC TO NATURALISTIC PSYCHOLOGY""; ""The Irony of Humanistic Psychology""; ""On Nature and Human Nature""; ""5. NATURALISTIC PSYCHOLOGY: A SKETCH""; ""“If We Truly Experience Needs . . .�""; ""Naturalism""; ""Life as a Hermeneutic Sense-Making Journey""; ""Nature and the Human Life Cycle""; ""6. MAKING SENSE OF SUFFERING IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD""; ""Technological Progress: The (Paved) Road to Happiness?""

""Suffering Under Technology""""Contesting the Pattern:



Counterpractice""; ""On Bearing Pain and Suffering""; ""NOTES""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter Two""; ""Chapter Three""; ""Chapter Four""; ""Chapter Five""; ""Chapter Six""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""