Malfeasance Appropriation Through Pollution?

Name: Malfeasance Appropriation Through Pollution?
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ISBN: 9780804773034

ISBN-10: 0804773033

ISBN-13: 9780804773034

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michel Serres, Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon

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In this highly original and provocative book, Michel Serres reflects on the relation between nature and culture and analyzes the origins of the world's contemporary environmental problems. He does so through the surprising proposition that our cleanliness is our dirt. While all living beings pollute to lay claim to their habitat, humans have multiplied pollution's effects catastrophically since the Industrial Revolution through the economic system's mode of appropriation and its emphasis on mindless growth. He warns that while we can measure what he calls "hard pollution"--the poisoning of the Earth--we ignore at our peril the disastrous impact of the "soft pollution" created by sound and…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 11/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 4.50" wide x 6.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English