Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject

Author:   Peter C. van Wyck
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9780791434345


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   31 July 1997
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Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject


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Brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory, showing that deep ecology still has much to learn from such theory.

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Author:   Peter C. van Wyck
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780791434345


ISBN 10:   0791434346
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   31 July 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Whither Environmentalism? Phantom Limbs Methods Structure 1. The Move to the Outside Earth Day I: The View from Space is Better Reform and Radical The Social The Deep Theoretical Fog The Minority Tradition 2. Ecology/System/Totality Prosthetic Ecology State Ecology Ecology and System Translation Ecological Patois Modernity Enlightenment Modernity as Paradigm 3. Displacing the Humans Nature Knows Best The Anthropocentric Circle Wilderness and the Mirror of the Primitive Primitive Others Going over the Hill 4. Boundary Disputes Boundary Games The Cyborg Trope The Wager Objectivity and Others Critical Weakness: Toward a Weak Ecology Notes Bibliography Index

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Peter C. van Wyck is a doctoral candidate at McGill University and is currently working on a project concerning the problems of ecological threat, psychoanalytic conceptions of subjectivity, and the burial of nuclear waste.

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