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

Evernden, Neil

 
9780802077851: The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment (Heritage)
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.

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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
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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