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Reconstructing nature : alienation, emancipation, and the division of labour
- Title
- Reconstructing nature : alienation, emancipation, and the division of labour / Peter Dickens.
- Author
- Dickens, Peter, 1940-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- ix, 224 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In Reconstructing Nature, Peter Dickens uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their knowledge of the natural and social world.
- Series Statement
- International library of sociology
- Uniform Title
- International library of sociology
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0415089212
- 9780415089210
- 0415089220
- 9780415089227
- LCCN
- 95026748
- OCLC
- ocm33948919
- 33948919
- SCSB-2094932
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library