Friedrich W. Sixel, Baldev R. Luther

Nature in Our Culture

A Study in the Anthropology and the Sociology of Knowing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nature in Our Culture shows that today's environmental problems are not a consequence of an incorrect science, but of the evolution of Western society. Friedrich W. Sixel acknowledges that the dominant culture that has evolved in modernity serves, primarily, the dominance of that culture. An egoistic instrumentalism forces the modern individual to view everything in terms of its usefulness. Sixel argues that only a culture that resurrects in itself its own Nature-ness will rectify our presently problematic Nature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780761820024
• ISBN-10: 0761820027
• Artikelnr.: 21541908

Autorenporträt

Friedrich W. Sixel, Baldev R. Luther

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The "Environmental" Issue:
Chapter 4 Our Problems with Nature Reveal Our Problematic Nature
Chapter 5 The Evolution of Western Society:
Chapter 6 Introductory Note: Evolution v. History
Chapter 7 Absolutism, Early Capitalism and Their Forms of Colonialism
Chapter 8 Industrial Capitalism and the New Colonialism
Chapter 9 Late Capitalism: "Liberation" and Global "Development"
Chapter 10 Modernity: The Culture of Power and Its Immunity
Chapter 11 The Alternative to Today's Praxis: Goethe's Understanding of
Nature:
Chapter 12 Introductory Note: Our Coming to Goethe
Chapter 13 The Evolvement of the Phenomenon Goethe
Chapter 14 Goethe's Praxis and Concept of Science
Chapter 15 Afterword
Chapter 16 Bibliography
Chapter 17 Selected Readings
Chapter 18 Index