Changing our environment, changing ourselves : nature, labour, knowledge and alienation / James S. Ormrod, editor.

"In this book, a celebration of the work of the sociologist Peter Dickens serves as the catalyst for exploring the relationship between human 'internal nature' (our health and psychological well-being) and 'external nature' (the environment on which we depend and which we collectively transform). Ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ormrod, James S., 1980- (Editor)
Dickens, Peter, 1940- (honouree.)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Subjects:
Dickens, Peter, > 1940- > Congresses.
Social change > Environmental aspects > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:xvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Changing our environment, changing ourselves
  • Peter Dickens: Late capitalism, nature and mental life
  • Defragmenting nature: Themes in Peter Dickens's work
  • Environmental alienation
  • Marx's universal metabolism of nature and the Frankfurt School: Dialectical contradictions and critical syntheses
  • Metabolic rift theory and the crisis of our foodways
  • Satellite farming, food and human wellbeing
  • Computers and the alienation of thinking: From Deep Blue to the Googlemobile
  • Society, nature and experience: Jouissance on the margin.