info@woodslane.com.au
Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

WOODSLANE

Popular Subjects

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780801845482 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

Social Creation of Nature

  • ISBN-13: 9780801845482
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Neil Evernden
  • Price: AUD $60.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/11/1992
  • Format: Paperback 200 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: The environment [RN]
Description
Reviews
Google
Preview
''I think The Social Creation of Nature stands Evernden in relation to the present generation roughly as Thoreau stood in relation to New England Transcendentalism.''--Max Oelschlaeger, author of The Idea of Wilderness.''A thoughtful and illuminating book . . . For Evernden, `wildness' is what should be defended and preserved.''--New Scientist.One reason for our failure to ''save the earth,'' argues Neil Evernden, is our disagreement about what ''nature'' really is--how it works, what constitutes a risk to it, and even whether we ourselves are part of it. Nature is as much a social entity as a physical one. In addition to the physical resources to be harnessed and transformed, it consists of a domain of norms that may be called upon in defense of certain social ideals. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings of nature, The Social Creation of Nature also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature in order to defend what is actually imperiled--''wildness,'' in which, Thoreau wrote, lies hope for ''the preservation of the world.''

""A thoughtful and illuminating book... For Evernden, 'wildness' is what should be defended and preserved.""

Google Preview content