Nature and Social Theory

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Nature and Social Theory is written by Adrian Franklin and published by SAGE. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0761963782 (ISBN 10) and 9780761963783 (ISBN 13).

This book asks the questions can `Man' be separated from `Nature'? Is it valid to seek to `control' Nature? It argues that the firm modern boundaries between nature and culture have been breached and pulls together new strands of thinking about nature which suggest that humanity and nature have never been separate. The argument is developed through a critical discussion of the Romantic ideal of pure nature, unsullied by humanity and largely confined to fragile margins in need of protection and more recent discourses which identify nature with environment, and cast man in the role of a polluter and destroyer.