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Nature, knowledge and negation /

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9781849506052

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Nature, knowledge and negation /

[Book]

edited by Harry F. Dahms.

1st ed.

Bingley :

Emerald Group Pub.,

2009.

1 online resource (xviii, 345 pages)

Current perspectives in social theory,

vol. 26

0278-1204 ;

Includes bibliographical references.

Front cover; Nature, Knowledge and Negation; Copyright page; Contents; Editorial Board; List of contributors; Introduction; Notes; References; Part I: Nature; Chapter 1. Climate Change, the Resource Crunch, and The Global Growth Imperative; The growth imperative: From postwar modernization to globalization; Climate change, ecological damage, and catastrophic risk; Synergistic impacts: Climate change and other growth-related ecological problems; Globalizing consumption: Hypergrowth and planetary overshoot; Critical social thought's ecological task: Re-embedding the social in nature.

5. Toward a model of human reaction to catastrophes6. A model of social action in catastrophic situations; 7. Conclusions; Notes; References; Part II: Knowledge; Chapter 7. Forty years of knowledge and human interests: A brief appreciation; 1. Reflection and critique; 2. Dancing with antinomies; 3. Capacities and incapacities; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Public sociology and the governance of possibility; Introduction; Burawoy's ontological fiction; Pro-professional public sociology's contribution to neoliberalism; The possibility of transformative public sociology; Notes; References.

AcknowledgmentsNotes; References; Chapter 2. Social theory, climate change, and the humanity-nature relation; 1. The growth imperative; 2. Anthropogenic global warming?; 3. Re-embedding the social in nature: Proceed with care; Notes; References; Chapter 3. 'Choose life' not economic growth: critical social theory for people, planet and flourishing in the 'age of nature'; Introduction; Growthmania: The cancer stage of capitalism; Climate change, culture and subjectivities; Peak oil and a post-carbon world; Sustainable alternatives to growthmania; Transitions away from growth: Creative descent?

Chapter 9. Peirce, pragmaticism and public sociology: Translating an interpretation into praxis1. Introduction: A triadic epistemology and a meta meta-paradigmatic perspective; 2. Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmaticism and semiotics; 3. Semiotics as a methodology; 4. Signs and sign systems; 5. The role of Theory; 6. Methodological considerations and practical outcomes: Using semiotics wisely; 7. Symbolic interactionism versus semiotic interactionism; 8. Semiotics and critical theory; 9. Semiotic sharpening of pragmatist insights; 10. Peirce's interpretation of the world; 11. Pedagogy; Notes.

ConclusionReferences; Chapter 4. Reply to my critics: Choosing life; Notes; References; Chapter 5. Developing planetarian accountancy: Fabricating nature as stock, service, and system for green governmentality; 1. Introduction; 2. Expertarchy, nation-states and ''nature''; 3. Sites of green governmentality; 4. Centers of assessment and action; 5. Summary thoughts; References; Chapter 6. Social action and catastrophe; 1. Introduction; 2. Action in extreme environments; 3. Sociology and the study of anatomical social facts; 4. Toward an anatomical sociology of 9/11 and hurricane Katrina.

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The first emphasis of the volume is on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis. The second emphasis is on the increasingly questionable possibility of shared knowledge at a time of increasing fragmentation of common frameworks, distraction from key issues, and dilution of the idea of objectivity. The thematic emphasis on environmental challenges and issues, includes one contribution on climate change, the resource crunch, and the global growth Imperative, along with critical responses by other experts in this field, and two contributions on the development of planetarian accountancy, and the ubiquity of risk in consumer societies. Further contributions address issues relating to the dialectic of selfhood, the aftermath of postmodernism, limitations inherent to feminist perspectives, the project of public sociology, the fortieth anniversary of Jurgen Habermas' classic, Knowledge and Human Interests, and the need for critical theory to rely on social research.

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Nature, Knowledge and Negation.

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Climatic changes-- Social aspects.

Nature-- Social aspects.

Climatic changes-- Social aspects.

Conservation of the environment.

Nature-- Social aspects.

Social Science-- Sociology-- General.

Social theory.

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