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Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion: How Industrial Society Lost Touch with Reality
David W. Kidner
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Description for Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion: How Industrial Society Lost Touch with Reality
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JMH; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230308480
SKU
V9780230308480
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About David W. Kidner
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: ... Read more
Reviews for Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion: How Industrial Society Lost Touch with Reality
"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