| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-217) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
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Division of labor.
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Marxian school of sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Division of labor. (OCoLC)fst00895801
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Human ecology -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00962959
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Marxian school of sociology. (OCoLC)fst01010962
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Sociologie marxiste.
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Division du travail.
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Écologie humaine.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dickens, Peter, 1940- Reconstructing nature. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 (DLC) 95026748 |
| ISBN |
0203420756 (electronic book) |
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9780203420751 (electronic book) |
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0203306422 (electronic book) |
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9780203306420 (electronic book) |
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0415089212 (Cloth) |
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0415089220 (Paper) |
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9786610321544 |
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661032154X |
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9780415089210 |
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0415089212 |
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9780415089227 |
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