Social Creation of Nature

Name: Social Creation of Nature
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ISBN: 9780801845482

ISBN-10: 0801845483

ISBN-13: 9780801845482

Edition: 1992

Authors: Neil Evernden

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"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…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.06" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



The Ambiguity of Nature



The Social Use of Nature



Nature and Norm



The Creation of Nature



The Purification of Nature



From nature to Nature



The Literal Landscape



The Fragile Division



The Liberation of Nature



Nature and the Ultrahuman


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index