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Our Oldest Task

- Making Sense of Our Place in Nature
Af: Eric T. Freyfogle Engelsk Hardback

Our Oldest Task

- Making Sense of Our Place in Nature
Af: Eric T. Freyfogle Engelsk Hardback
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This is a book about nature and culture, Eric T. Freyfogle writes, "about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in living on it in ways that might endure." Challenges, he says, we are clearly failing to meet. Harking back to a key phrase from the essays of eminent American conservationist Aldo Leopold, Our Oldest Task spins together lessons from history and philosophy, the life sciences and politics, economics and cultural studies in a personal, erudite quest to understand how we might live on and in accord with the land. Passionate and pragmatic, extraordinarily well-read and eloquent, Freyfogle details a host of forces that have produced our self-defeating ethos of human exceptionalism. It is this outlook, he argues, not a lack of scientific knowledge or inadequate technology, that is the primary cause of our ecological predicament. Seeking to comprehend both the multifaceted complexity of contemporary environmental problems and the zeitgeist as it unfolds, Freyfogle explores such diverse topics as morality, the nature of reality (and the reality of nature), animal welfare, social justice movements, and market politics. The result is a learned and inspiring rallying cry to achieve balance, a call to use our knowledge to more accurately identify the dividing line between living in and on the world and destruction. "To use nature," Freyfogle writes, "but not to abuse it."
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This is a book about nature and culture, Eric T. Freyfogle writes, "about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in living on it in ways that might endure." Challenges, he says, we are clearly failing to meet. Harking back to a key phrase from the essays of eminent American conservationist Aldo Leopold, Our Oldest Task spins together lessons from history and philosophy, the life sciences and politics, economics and cultural studies in a personal, erudite quest to understand how we might live on and in accord with the land. Passionate and pragmatic, extraordinarily well-read and eloquent, Freyfogle details a host of forces that have produced our self-defeating ethos of human exceptionalism. It is this outlook, he argues, not a lack of scientific knowledge or inadequate technology, that is the primary cause of our ecological predicament. Seeking to comprehend both the multifaceted complexity of contemporary environmental problems and the zeitgeist as it unfolds, Freyfogle explores such diverse topics as morality, the nature of reality (and the reality of nature), animal welfare, social justice movements, and market politics. The result is a learned and inspiring rallying cry to achieve balance, a call to use our knowledge to more accurately identify the dividing line between living in and on the world and destruction. "To use nature," Freyfogle writes, "but not to abuse it."
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226326399
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 022632639X
Kategori: Kulturgeografi
Udg. Dato: 28 aug 2017
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 159mm
Højde: 236mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 28 aug 2017
Forfatter(e): Eric T. Freyfogle
Forfatter(e) Eric T. Freyfogle

Kategori Kulturgeografi

ISBN-13 9780226326399

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 240

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 159mm

Højde 236mm

Udg. Dato 28 aug 2017

Oplagsdato 28 aug 2017

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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