Nature and Social Theory

ISBN: 9780761963783 出版年：2001 页码：288 Franklin, Alex SAGE Publications Ltd

This book asks the questions can Man' be separated from Nature'? Is it valid to seek to control' Nature? It argues that the firm modern boundaries between nature and culture have been breached and pulls together new strands of thinking about nature which suggest that humanity and nature have never been separate. The argument is developed through a critical discussion of the Romantic ideal of pure nature, unsullied by humanity and largely confined to fragile margins in need of protection and more recent discourses which identify nature with environment, and cast man in the role of a polluter and destroyer.