Invisible nature : healing the destructive divide between people and the environment

Worthy, Kenneth 1961- (Author).

Summary: "Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world--smartphones, fast intercontinental travel, Internet movies, fully stocked refrigerators--lies an unnerving fact that may be even more disturbing than all the environmental and social costs of our lifestyles. The fragmentations of our modern lives, our disconnections from nature and from the consequences of our actions, make it difficult to follow our own values and ethics, so we can no longer be truly ethical beings. ... Environmental scholar Kenneth Worthy traces the broken pathways between consumers and clean-room worker illnesses, superfund sites in Silicon Valley, and massively contaminated landscapes in rural Asian villages. ... Invisible Nature shows the way forward: how we can create more involvement in our own food production, more education about how goods are produced and waste is disposed, more direct and deliberative democracy, and greater contact with the nature that sustains us" --

Record details

ISBN: 9781616147631 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1616147636 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2013.
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-358) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A Modern Story -- Comprehending Environmental Degradation -- Recognizing Dissociations -- ch. 1 The Banality Of Everyday Destruction -- Dirty Clean Rooms, Poisoned Landscapes, and E-Waste -- The Anatomy of Dissociations -- Thwarted Ethics -- ch. 2 Sense And Connection: The Texture Of Dissociated Life -- Sense and Environment -- A Phenomenology of Modern Living -- The Industrialization of Sensuality -- Living Phenomenally Dissociated Lives -- ch. 3 From Dissociation To Destruction Through The Psyche -- Dissociation in Psyches -- From Phenomenal Dissociations to Destruction -- Woe Is Psyche -- Letting Psyche See -- ch. 4 Dissociations In Western Psyches -- Thinking the World Fractured -- Individuation: Culture and the Dissociated Self -- Dissociated Western Psyches -- ch. 5 Ancient Traces Of Dissociation -- Dissociated Living in Ancient Greece -- Enter Plato -- Enter Aristotle -- From the Ancient West into Modernity -- ch. 6 Modern Traces Of Dissociation -- Early Modern Dissociated Thought -- Reassociating Modern Thought -- The Fantasy of Pure Subject and Pure Object -- ch. 7 Modern Spaces -- Broken Space -- Modern Constructions of Space -- Less Modern Space -- Fractured Space -- ch. 8 Reconnecting And Healing A Planet -- Personal Responses to Dissociated Life -- The Fantasy of Pure Freedom -- Associating Ethics -- Living the World Connected -- Thinking the World Connected.