Alienation and nature in environmental philosophy /

Alienation and nature in environmental philosophy /

"Many environmental scientists, scholars and activists characterise our situation as one of alienation from nature, but this notion can easily seem meaningless or irrational. In this book, Simon Hailwood critically analyses the idea of alienation from nature and argues that it can be a useful n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hailwood, Simon A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Environmental sciences > Philosophy.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Philosophy.
Alienation (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Alienations and natures; 3. Pragmatists and sea squirts; 4. Landscape; 5. Nonhuman nature: estrangement; 6. Nonhuman nature: alienation; 7. Estrangement from the natural world; 8. Entailments and entanglements; 9. Concluding remarks; References; Index.