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This book asks the questions can `Man' be separated from `Nature'? Is it valid to seek to `control' Nature? It argues that the firm modern boundaries between nature and culture have been breached and pulls together new strands of thinking about nature which suggest that humanity and nature have never been separate. The argument is developed through a critical discussion of the Romantic ideal of pure nature, unsullied by humanity and largely confined to fragile margins in need of protection and more recent discourses which identify nature with environment, and cast man in the role of a polluter and destroyer.
Thinking about Nature 2: The Nature Crisis?
Thinking about Nature 2: The Nature Crisis?
Realism, Social Constructivism and the Environment Question
Crudely, modern sociology did not express much interest in nature as such until there was such a thing as the environmental question. The ‘nature’ debate grew up as a result of two principal moves. First, many sociologists ...
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