Changing our Environment, Changing Ourselves

Nature, Labour, Knowledge and Alienation

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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In this book, a celebration of the work of the sociologist Peter Dickens serves as the catalyst for exploring the relationship between human ‘internal nature’ (our health and psychological well-being) and ‘external nature’ (the environment on which we depend and which we collectively transform).

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Utgivningsdatum2021-04-21
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt432 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor315
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349848959

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- Introduction: Changing our environment, changing ourselves.- PART I: THE WORK OF PETER DICKENS.- 1. Peter Dickens: Late capitalism, nature and mental life.- 2. Defragmenting nature: Themes in Peter Dickens’s work.- PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL DEBATES.- 3. Environmental alienation.- 4. Marx’s universal metabolism of nature and the Frankfurt School: Dialectical contradictions and critical syntheses.- PART III: EMERGING ISSUES.- 5. Metabolic rift theory and the crisis of our foodways.- 6. Satellite farming, food and human wellbeing.- 7. Computers and the alienation of thinking: From Deep Blue to the Googlemobile.- 8. Society, nature and experience: Jouissance on the margins.