Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Symbolism Breaks Free

   • David W. Kidner

   Pages 1-36

3. The Natural and the Industrial

   • David W. Kidner

   Pages 37-83

4. Growing Out of the World

   • David W. Kidner

   Pages 84-99

5. Lost in (Symbolic) Space

   • David W. Kidner

   Pages 100-142

6. How the Mind Took Over the World

   • David W. Kidner

   Pages 143-220

7. The Industrialised Individual

   • David W. Kidner

   Pages 221-282

8. Back Matter

   Pages 283-327

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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.

• character
• environment
• Integration
• nature

"This is an exceptional resource for the multiple disciplines that are concerned with culture, environment and the future of human kind." - Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia, US

• Nottingham Trent University, UK

  David W. Kidner

David Kidner worked as a process design engineer in the petroleum industry before turning to social science with a PhD in psychology from London University. For the past three decades he has taught critical social science and environmental philosophy in Britain and the USA, and is currently at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity (2001), and numerous academic papers.
 

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