Rationality and Nature : A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship

Murphy, Raymond

Routledge（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 311 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367320126
• DDC分類 363.7

Full Description

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.

Contents

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"