Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour

Author:   Peter Dickens
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415089227


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 July 1996
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Peter Dickens
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9780415089227


ISBN 10:   0415089220
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 July 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction 1 SOCIETY, NATURE AND THE BALKANISATION OF ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE 2 UNDERSTANDING ALIENATION: FROM THE ABSTRACT TO THE CONCRETE 3 REALISM, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND THE PROBLEM OF ‘NATURE’ 4 WHO WOULD KNOW? SCIENCE, LAY KNOWLEDGE AND ALIENATION 5 INDUSTRIALISING NATURE’S POWERS 6 CIVIL SOCIETY: THE RECOVERY OF WHOLENESS? 7 KNOWLEDGE, STATE AUTHORITY AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR 8 GREEN UTOPIAS AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR EPILOGUE: HUMANISING NATURE, NATURALISING HUMANS

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Peter Dickens' new contribution to environmental sociology, Reconstructing Nature belongs to a category of innovative analysis that transcends the old ideological battles between the proponents of Marx's humanism and those of his historicism, looking instead to reconcile these aspects of Marx's work in his naturalism Dickens, like others who have pioneered green Marxist theory, is to be commended for his courage in standing against the tide of idealist constructionism to consider the dialectical relationship between the historical, material world and our ideas about it. -Eliza Darling, The City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, Journal of Political Ecology


Peter Dickens' new contribution to environmental sociology, Reconstructing Nature belongs to a category of innovative analysis that transcends the old ideological battles between the proponents of Marx's humanism and those of his historicism, looking instead to reconcile these aspects of Marx's work in his naturalism Dickens, like others who have pioneered green Marxist theory, is to be commended for his courage in standing against the tide of idealist constructionism to consider the dialectical relationship between the historical, material world and our ideas about it. <br>-Eliza Darling, The City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, Journal of Political Ecology <br>


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Peter Dickens is Reader in Sociology at the University of Sussex.

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