The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment (Heritage) - Softcover

Evernden, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802077854 ISBN 13: 9780802077851

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

In this eloquent and sympathetic book, Evernden evaluates the international environmental movement and the underlying assumptions that could doom it to failure. Beginning with a simple definition of environmentalists as "those who confess a concern for the non-human," he reviews what is inherent in industrial societies to make them so resistant to the concerns of environmentalists. His analysis draws on citing such diverse sources as Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and TIME, and examines how we tend to think about the world and how we might think about it.

The book does not offer solutions to environmental questions, but it does offer the hope that there can be new ways of thinking and flexibility in human/environmental relations. Although humans seem alienated from our the natural world, we can develop a new understanding of `self in the world.'

The second edition has a new preface and an epilogue in which Evernden analyses the latest environmental catch-phrase: sustainable development.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Neil Evernden is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802077854
• ISBN 13: 9780802077851
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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