
The Logic of Environmentalism
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"...a fascinating journey through the European understanding of 'nature' as opposed to 'humanism'...and interesting and provocative volume." ? Journal of Biosocial Science"...a powerful critique of contemporary environmentalism, and the anthropology that supports it." ? Human Ecology
"Argyrou's compelling argument has important implications for the future of conservation and development...the new 'facts' of environmentalism are no more objective or true than the old facts of modernism." ? American Anthropologist
"This is...potentially an important book." ? Environmental Politics
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Chapter 1. First Change
'The Idea of Nature'
'If we have no rivers, we make canals'
'Europeans are devotees of power'
'The Leap Across the Centuries'
Chapter 2. Second Change
'Only One Earth'
'This Sacred Earth'
'Our Debt to the Savage'
Chapter 3. The Logic of the Same
The Phenomenology of Change
'The Age of the World Picture'
Pure Humanity
Chapter 4. 'Beyond Humanism': and further to the other side
'The Religion of Humanity', the Religion of Gaia and other Homologies
Pure Being
Chapter 5. No Change
On Hegemony
The Double Bind
Bibliography
Index
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