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Author : Keith W. Cushing
Release : 2000
Genre : Ohio River Valley
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Book Synopsis Society and the Persistence of Nature by : Keith W. Cushing
Download or read book Society and the Persistence of Nature written by Keith W. Cushing. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Pinker
Release : 2012-09-25
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis The Better Angels of Our Nature by : Steven Pinker
Download or read book The Better Angels of Our Nature written by Steven Pinker. This book was released on 2012-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
Author : Frank Palmeri
Release : 2016-03-29
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis State of Nature, Stages of Society by : Frank Palmeri
Download or read book State of Nature, Stages of Society written by Frank Palmeri. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate a naturalistic account of society's commercial and secular progression. Palmeri finds evidence of speculative frameworks in the political economy of Malthus, Martineau, Mill, and Marx. He traces the influence of speculative thought in the development of anthropology and ethnography in the 1860s, the foundational sociology of Comte and Spencer, and the sociology of religion pioneered by Weber, Durkheim, and Freud. Conjectural histories reveal a surprising ambivalence toward progress, modernity, and secularization among leading thinkers of the time, an attitude that affected texts as varied as Darwin's Descent of Man, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality, and the novels of Walter Scott, George Eliot, and H.G. Wells. Establishing the critical value of conjectural thinking in the study of modern forms of knowledge, Palmeri concludes his investigation with its return in the work of Foucault and in recent histories on early religion, political organization, and material life.
Author : Thomas Dunlap
Release : 1999-09-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Nature and the English Diaspora by : Thomas Dunlap
Download or read book Nature and the English Diaspora written by Thomas Dunlap. This book was released on 1999-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of natural history, settlers' adaptations to the end of expansion, scientists' shift from natural history to ecology, and the rise of environmentalism. Addressing not only scientific knowledge but also popular issues from hunting to landscape painting, this book explores the ways in which English-speaking settlers looked at nature in their new lands.
Author : Klaus Eder
Release : 1996-10-14
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis The Social Construction of Nature by : Klaus Eder
Download or read book The Social Construction of Nature written by Klaus Eder. This book was released on 1996-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique and agenda-setting interpretation of nature and ecology that will become the essential reference in any debate on environmental politics and sociology.
