The Natural Alien : : Humankind and Environment / / Neil Evernden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Evernden, Neil,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)

In this eloquent and sympathetic book, Evernden evaluates the international environmental movement and the underlying assumptions that could doom it to failure. Beginning with a simple definition of environmentalists as ";those who confess a concern for the non-human,"; he reviews what is inherent in industrial societies to make them so resistant to the concerns of environmentalists. His analysis draws on citing such diverse sources as Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and TIME, and examines how we tend to think about the world and how we might think about it.The book does not offer solutions to environmental questions, but it does offer the hope that there can be new ways of thinking and flexibility in human/environmental relations. Although humans seem alienated from our the natural world, we can develop a new understanding of `self in the world.'The second edition has a new preface and an epilogue in which Evernden analyses the latest environmental catch-phrase: sustainable development.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- The Environmentalists' Dilemma -- 1 Talking about the Mountain -- The Cultural Dimension -- 2 The Fields of Self -- 3 Returning to Experience -- The Organic Dimension -- 4 A Biology of Subjects -- 5 Natural Aliens -- The Context of Environmentalism -- 6 The Shells of Belief -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index