Reinventing Nature?: Responses To Postmodern Deconstruction

By Michael E. Soulé

Book Overview

How much of science is culturally constructed? How much depends on language and metaphor? How do our ideas about nature connect with reality? Can nature be "reinvented" through theme parks and malls,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559633107
• ISBN13: 9781559633109
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Response to Cronon, Uncommon Ground

This book was created as a response to William Cronon's edited volume, Uncommon Ground (1995). Cronon's book ultimately has stood the test of time better than this collection, but the two should always be read together. As a unit, they provide both a thoughtful collection of views on the changing definition of "nature" in American life and also a fine historical view of 1990s environmental thinking.

Examines the philosophical roots of our views on nature.

Essays by various authors from a symposia in California, Reinventing Nature looks at where our concepts of nature originate and how very different they can be. Several of the chapters explore some of the naive myths we hold about native peoples, their values, and attitudes toward the land and its resources. An excellent eye-opener for the general reader.