Postmodern Ecology: Communications, Evolution, and Play by Daniel R. White, Daniel R. White (Preface by)

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This book spins a historical fable about the trends in European thought that have contributed to the rise of industrial civilization and to the ecological crisis. It explores alternative visions of nature and culture, from Romanticism to ecological theory, in an effort to rewrite the story of natural and cultural history. Its themes include ecological poetics, technological artistry, evolutionary learning, the play of communication, and the struggle for a viable ecological ethic.

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As scholars of critical theory and cultural studies are wont to do, White harvests from a plethora of disciplines, including ecology, communications theory, cybernetics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history, and literature. He discusses the crisis of modernity, lifeworld, ecosociality, ecopoetics, and the journey from the ecological wasteland to the cybernetic city. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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