Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature

by Steven Vogel

Book Overview

A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of "nature" altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.

Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262529718
• ISBN13: 9780262529716
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher