Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion - How Industrial Society Lost Touch With Reality

Zusatztext "This is an exceptional resource for the multiple disciplines that are concerned with culture! environment and the future of human kind." - Alan E. Stewart! University of Georgia! US Informationen zum Autor David Kidner worked as a process design engineer in the petroleum industry before turning to social science with a PhD in psychology from London University. For the past three decades he has taught critical social science and environmental philosophy in Britain and the USA, and is currently at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity (2001), and numerous academic papers.   Klappentext While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life. Zusammenfassung While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously! there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences! this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Symbolism Breaks Free The Natural and the Industrial Growing Out of the World Lost in (Symbolic) Space How the Mind Took Over the World The Industrialised Individual Notes Bibliography Index

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Preface Symbolism Breaks Free The Natural and the Industrial Growing Out of the World Lost in (Symbolic) Space How the Mind Took Over the World The Industrialised Individual Notes Bibliography Index

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"This is an exceptional resource for the multiple disciplines that are concerned with culture, environment and the future of human kind." - Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia, US

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• Authors: D Kidner, D. Kidner, David W. Kidner
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349339105
• ISBN: 978-1-349-33910-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Sociology, Social Theory, Environment, personality, biotechnology, The environment, Social Psychology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental Sociology, Social, group or collective psychology, Sociology, general, Community and Environmental Psychology, Community Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, character;environment;Integration;nature