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UNINA9910822184203321 |
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Autore |
Wright Will |
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Titolo |
Wild knowledge : science, language, and social life in a fragile environment / / Will Wright |
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Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1992 |
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©1992 |
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ISBN |
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0-8166-8424-3 |
0-8166-2051-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human ecology - Philosophy |
Knowledge, Sociology of |
Language and languages |
Environmental policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: ecological incoherence; The desperate privilege of science; Belief systems; Nature as politics; The mathematics of knowledge; The knowing individual; Scientific social theory; The dilemma of rationality; The reference to language; The ecology of language. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This text argues that scientific knowledge is primarily an effort at social legitimation, and that its conceptual incoherence as knowledge is now becoming ecological incoherence as social practice. |
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