Reviews
Sociobiologists talk about human life as if it were no more than an element of Nature, bound by its iron laws. Neil Evernden makes an end run around them by showing that once upon a time 'Nature' did not exist. Rather, he says, it is a human invention and it has a history.
A thoughtful and illuminating book... For Evernden, 'wildness' is what should be defended and preserved.
I think The Social Creation of Nature stands Evernden in relation to the present generation roughly as Thoreau stood in relation to New England Transcendentalism.
Book Details
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I. The Ambiguity of Nature
Chapter 1. The Social Use of Nature
Chapter 2. Nature and Norm
Part II. The Creation of Nature
Chapter 3. The Purification of Nature
Chapt
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I. The Ambiguity of Nature
Chapter 1. The Social Use of Nature
Chapter 2. Nature and Norm
Part II. The Creation of Nature
Chapter 3. The Purification of Nature
Chapter 4. From nature to Nature
Chapter 5. The Literal Landscape
Chapter 6. The Fragile Division
Part III. The Liberation of Nature
Chapter 7. Nature and Ultrahuman
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography Essay
Index