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Rationality And Nature A Sociological Inquiry Into A Changing Relationship
By Raymond Murphy
Copyright 1994
310 Pages
by
Routledge
311 Pages
by
Routledge
311 Pages
by
Routledge
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Divergent beliefs about humanity's relationship to nature collide as the second millenium ends. One belief emphasizes that a distinctive characteristic of humans—reason—enables them to reshape and master nature. Another insists that nature is not so plastic, hence humans must adapt to nature and render development sustainable, or even limit growth. "Social ecology" asserts that environmental... Read more
Preface -- The Intensification of Rationalization and Its Alternatives -- Rationalization Under the Premise of Plasticity -- Rationalization and Ecological Irrationality -- Rationalization Under the Premise of Greenness -- Rerationalization -- Derationalization -- The Sociology of Environmental Degradation -- The Political Economy of Waste -- Accounting for Waste and Accountability for Waste -- Environmental Classes and Environmental Conflict -- Toward a Symbiotic Relationship with Nature -- Science and Applied Science as Partial Knowledge -- Parasitism: A "Light Cloak" or an "Iron Cage"?
Biography
Raymond Murphy is professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is author of Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship (WestviewPress 1994).
