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Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion: How Industrial Society Lost Touch with Reality 2012th Edition
Author(s): David W. Kidner (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 6 Mar. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230308481
- ISBN-13: 9780230308480
Book Description
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.
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Review
“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
About the Author
David Kidner worked as a process engineer in the petroleum industry before turning to social science with a PhD in psychology from the University of London. 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. He is the author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY Press, 2001), and numerous academic papers.
