The Social Creation of Nature

By: Neil Evernden

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Paperback | 14 November 1992

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200 Pages

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22+

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27

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"I think The Social Creation of Nature stands Evernden in relation to the present generation roughly as Thoreau stood in relation to New England Transcendentalism." -- Max Oelschlaeger, author of The Idea of Wilderness.

"A thoughtful and illuminating book... For Evernden, wildness' is what should be defended and preserved." -- New Scientist.

One reason for our failure to "save the earth," argues Neil Evernden, is our disagreement about what "nature" really is -- how it works, what constitutes a risk to it, and even whether we ourselves are part of it. Nature is as much a social entity as a physical one. In addition to the physical resources to be harnessed and transformed, it consists of a domain of norms that may be called upon in defense of certain social ideals. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings of nature, The Social Creation of Nature also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature in order to defend what is actually imperiled -- "wildness," in which, Thoreau wrote, lies hope for "the preservation of the world."

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""A thoughtful and illuminating book... For Evernden, 'wildness' is what should be defended and preserved.""

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