Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion [electronic resource] : How Industrial Society Lost Touch with Reality /
Kidner, D.author.
While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Symbolism Breaks Free""; ""2 The Natural and the Industrial""; ""3 Growing Out of the World""; ""4 Lost in (Symbolic) Space""; ""5 How the Mind Took Over the World""; ""6 The Industrialised Individual""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Environmental sociology.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Environment.
Sociology.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Environmental Sociology.
Social Theory.
Environment, general.
Sociology, general.
Community and Environmental Psychology.