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""New Visions of Nature"" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics.  The second selection zooms in on micro nature and explores the world of contemporary genomics. The final section returns to the macro world and discusses the ethics of place in present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an ‘out there’ and ‘in here.’ They attempt to specify how nature has been publicly and genomically constructed, known and described through metaphors and re-envisioned in terms of landscape and place. By parsing out and rendering explicit these divergent views, the volume asks for a re-thinking of our relationship with nature.

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Author:   Martin A. M. Drenthen ,  F.W. Jozef Keulartz ,  James Proctor
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2009 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.474kg
ISBN:  

9789400791817

ISBN 10:   940079181
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   07 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Nature in Motion.- Public Visions of Nature.- Technological Nature – And the Problem When Good Enough Becomes Good.- They Could Have Used a Robot: Technology, Nature Experience and Human Flourishing.- The Authenticity of Nature: An Exploration of Lay People’s Interpretations in the Netherlands.- The Hierarchical and Unconscious Mind: Reflections on the Authenticity of Nature.- The Trouble with Plovers.- About Snowy Plovers, Lapwings and Wolves: How to Include Contrasting Visions of Ecologists and Laymen in Decision-Making.- The Genomics View of Nature.- Detachment, Genomics and the Nature of Being Human.- The Detached Animal – On the Technical Nature of Being Human.- Metagenomic Metaphors: New Images of the Human from ‘Translational’ Genomic Research.- The Metagenomic World-View: A Comment on Eric T. Juengst’s ‘Metagenomic Metaphors’.- Genomics Metaphors and Genetic Determinism.- Maps and the Taxonomic Style.- Philosophy of Landscape and Place.- “Thinking Like a Mountain”: Ethics and Place as Travelling Concepts.- Towards an Epistemology of Place.- Developing Nature Along Dutch Rivers: Place or Non-Place.- Restoring Nature in a Mobile Society.- Between Nativism and Cosmopolitanism: Framing and Reframing in Invasion Biology.- Further Towards a Continuum Between Nativism and Cosmopolitanism.- Conclusions.- Nature, Technology and the Human Condition.

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