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151The meaning of nature: a survey of the western approachAgassiz Centre for Water Studies, University of Manitoba. 1977.This book-length essay was written in the late 1970s at a time when human damage to the natural environment was becoming a topic of concern. Since then this damage has become a catastrophe and the book's message even more pertinent. Its argument was that while the problem of the environment is new and clear, the conceptual tools we use to understand it are old and confused. The discussion of humankind's deleterious effect on the environment was and still is largely conducted through the lens of…Read more
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Université du Québec à MontréalRetired faculty
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
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