Reconstructing Nature

Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: Peter Dickens ISBN: 9781134879021
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: November 1, 2002
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Peter Dickens
ISBN: 9781134879021
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: November 1, 2002
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world.
He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science and rationality rather than rejecting them and, in the process, humanity as well as the non-human world will benefit.

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One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world.
He argues that nevertheless it is possible to relate these to the abstractions of ecological discourse. Emancipation can come only through embracing science and rationality rather than rejecting them and, in the process, humanity as well as the non-human world will benefit.

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