A01=Peter Dickens
abstract
Alienated Community
Animal Kingdom
Author_Peter Dickens
Autopoietic Subsystems
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Category=JH
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causal
Causal Powers
Civil Society
Common Carriers
Contemporary Society
critical
division
ecological rationality
environmental sociology
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Face To Face
Held
Human Beings
Ithiel De Sola Pool
knowledge
knowledge fragmentation
labour
lay expertise
Marxist alienation in ecology
Mass Observation Archive
MassObservation Archive
Natural World
NSM Theory
Ozone Layer Depletion
powers
process
Real Causal Mechanisms
realism
Reproductive Technologies
scientific emancipation
social realism theory
Society Nature Relations
Strong Social Constructionism
Tacit Knowledge
technical
Technical Division
Unstable
Vice Versa
Worthwhile
Product details
- ISBN 9780415089210
- Weight: 504g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Peter Dickens is Reader in Sociology at the University of Sussex.
