Nature, knowledge and negation
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Nature, knowledge and negation
(Current perspectives in social theory : a research annual / editors, Scott G. McNall, Gary N. Howe, v. 26)
Emerald, 2009
1st ed
Available at 17 libraries
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first emphasis of the volume is on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis. The second emphasis is on the increasingly questionable possibility of shared knowledge at a time of increasing fragmentation of common frameworks, distraction from key issues, and dilution of the idea of objectivity. The thematic emphasis on environmental challenges and issues, includes one contribution on climate change, the resource crunch, and the global growth Imperative, along with critical responses by other experts in this field, and two contributions on the development of planetarian accountancy, and the ubiquity of risk in consumer societies. Further contributions address issues relating to the dialectic of selfhood, the aftermath of postmodernism, limitations inherent to feminist perspectives, the project of public sociology, the fortieth anniversary of Jurgen Habermas' classic, Knowledge and Human Interests, and the need for critical theory to rely on social research.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors.
Introduction.
Climate Change, the Resource Crunch, and The Global Growth Imperative.
Social theory, climate change, and the humanity-nature relation.
'Choose life' not economic growth: critical social theory for people, planet and flourishing in the 'age of nature'.
Reply to my critics: Choosing life.
Developing planetarian accountancy: Fabricating nature as stock, service, and system for green governmentality.
Social action and catastrophe.
Forty years of knowledge and human interests.
Public sociology and the governance of possibility.
Peirce, pragmaticism and public sociology: Translating an interpretation into praxis.
The dialectic of selfhood.
Under surveillance: Herbert Marcuse and the FBI.
The actuality of critical theory: A reply to Dahms' late prolegomenon.
Beyond 'feminisms': Refocusing the women's movement through the lens of liberation.
After post-modernism: Toward the recovery of theory.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory.
Nature, knowledge and negation.
Copyright page.
Editor.
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