Social Construction of Nature by Klaus Eder

Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment

This interpretation of nature and environmentalism examines the relationship between industrial society and nature, questions the utilitarian understanding of nature as an object through an analysis of symbolism, ritual and taboo, and re-examines thinking on the environment. In this unique and agenda-setting examination of the relation between nature and culture, Klaus Eder demonstrates our ideas of nature are culturally determined, and explains how the relation between modern, industrial societies and nature is increasingly violent and destructive. Through an analysis of symbolism, ritual and taboo, Eder questions the view of nature as an object. Showing how nature is socially constructed, he presents a critique of Marx and Durkheim while offering a radical reinterpretation of the relationship among society, culture and nature. Eder concludes with an examination of the symbolic order of society and of the role of religion in modern culture. Using a culturalist interpretation, he explains how environmentalism, and the social construction of nature, is a key index of social order and structure.
`Author(s) :` Klaus Eder	`Format :` Paperback Book
`ISBN-10 :` 0803978499	`ISBN-13 :` 9780803978492
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Product Details:

Series Title : Theory, Culture and Society Series

Country Publication : United States

Publication Date : 20/08/1996

Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd

Page Length : 256mm

Page Size : 234mm