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Nature and the crisis of modernity : a critique of contemporary discourse on managing the earth
- Title
- Nature and the crisis of modernity : a critique of contemporary discourse on managing the earth / Raymond A. Rogers.
- Author
- Rogers, Raymond A., 1951-
- Publication
- Montréal ; New York : Black Rose Books, ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GF50 .R65 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 187 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Using an innovative and compelling approach, Rogers applies social theories to the way we view the natural world, and finds that Western humans have made a new "last frontier" at the edge of town, where the trees--or oceans--begin.
- Subject
- Human ecology
- Biotic communities
- Environmental policy
- Social ecology
- Environmental economics
- Social Environment
- Ecosystem
- human ecology
- environmental policy
- Social ecology
- Environmental economics
- Biotic communities
- Environmental policy
- Human ecology
- Mensch
- Natur
- Humanökologie
- Nature > Effect of human beings on
- Écologie humaine
- Écosystèmes
- Économie de l'environnement
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Political Economy and Natural Community. Canada's East Coast Fishery: A Case Study in Global Management -- 2. Situating the Inquiry. Capital. Nature. The Environmental Crisis and the Crisis of Modernity. Modern Social Transformation -- 3. Social Forms of Exchange. Archaic Social Forms and Classical Economics. Marxist Perspectives on the Evolution of Money. Simmel and the Objectification of the Money Form. Karl Polanyi and General Purpose Money. Psychoanalysis and Money -- 4. Cultures of Substitution. Money That Breeds. The World Eaters. Cultures of Substitution. Baudrillard and the Political Economy of the Sign -- 5. Human Identity and the Natural World. Wild Convergence: The Sociality of Natural Communities. The Residual Cultural Record of Human-Nature Relations. Modern Divergence: The Split Between Nature and Culture. Economic Conditions in Early Modern England. The Outskirts of Meaning: Nature and Tragedy in King Lear. The Manufactured World. Society as Graveyard. Moments of Danger. Nature Rendered Unconscious -- 6. Prisoners of Value: The Current Environmental Debate. Economic Development as an Emergent Form. Greenback Delusions. Accentuating the Gulf -- 7. Conclusion: Horizons of Significance. The Aftermath of Collapse.
- ISBN
- 1551640147
- 9781551640143
- 1551640155
- 9781551640150
- 1551640055 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 94078185
- OCLC
- ocm31516256
- 31516256
- SCSB-2109512
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library