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Nature in Our Culture shows that today's environmental problems are not a consequence of an incorrect science, but of the evolution of Western society. Friedrich W. Sixel acknowledges that the dominant culture that has evolved in modernity serves, primarily, the dominance of that culture. An egoistic instrumentalism forces the modern individual to view everything in terms of its usefulness. Sixel argues that only a culture that resurrects in itself its own Nature-ness will rectify our presently problematic Nature.

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Author:   Friedrich W. Sixel ,  Baldev R. Luther
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 21.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780761820024

ISBN 10:   0761820027
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   21 November 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The ""Environmental"" Issue: Chapter 4 Our Problems with Nature Reveal Our Problematic Nature Chapter 5 The Evolution of Western Society: Chapter 6 Introductory Note: Evolution v. History Chapter 7 Absolutism, Early Capitalism and Their Forms of Colonialism Chapter 8 Industrial Capitalism and the New Colonialism Chapter 9 Late Capitalism: ""Liberation"" and Global ""Development"" Chapter 10 Modernity: The Culture of Power and Its Immunity Chapter 11 The Alternative to Today's Praxis: Goethe's Understanding of Nature: Chapter 12 Introductory Note: Our Coming to Goethe Chapter 13 The Evolvement of the Phenomenon Goethe Chapter 14 Goethe's Praxis and Concept of Science Chapter 15 Afterword Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Selected Readings Chapter 18 Index"

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Friedrich W. Sixel is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University, Canada.

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