Nature and experience in the culture of delusion: how industrial society lost touch with reality
Kidner, David W.
Industrialism has alienated us from nature, disconnected us from our own embodiment, and blinded us the character of the technological society we have ourselves produced. This book brings together ideas and research from both social and natural sciences to throw light on the hidden dimensions of industrial life, showing how the emerging global economic system has dissolved our embodied subjectivity into industrial processes. The symbolic abilities that have allowed us to dominate all other creatures have now entrapped us within systems that we do not understand and have little control over, making us as vulnerable to the extension of economic and technological ideologies as our ancestors wereto the natural threats that surrounded them. If we are to regain our humanityand integrity, the essential first step, outlined in this book, is to recognise and challenge the sources of our own powerlessness. INDICE: Preface.Symbolism Breaks Free.The Natural and the Industrial.Growing Out of the World.Lost in (Symbolic) Space.How the Mind Took Over the World.The Industrialised Individual .Notes.Bibliography .Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30848-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 06/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido