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Nature and the Crisis of Modernity

Raymond Rogers

Using an innovative and compelling approach, Rogers applies social theories to the way we view the natural world, and finds that Western humans have made a new last frontier at the edge of town, where the trees or oceans begin.

He shows how the financialization of the globe has set in motion a war on local culture, where no community is recognizable except as a financial resource.

SOCIAL THEORY
187 pages

Paperback ISBN: 1-551640-14-7 $19.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-551640-05-5 $48.99

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@TITLE = NATURE AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY @AUTHOR = Raymond A. Rogers Using an innovative and compelling approach, Raymond Rogers applies social theory to the way we view the natural world and finds that the Western world has made a new last frontier at the edge of town, where the trees or oceans begin. At the heart of modern capital and industrial production is a process that is ripping us from the natural world, ideologically and practically. In Rogers vision, the natural world is part of society and has been oppressed over generations as humans have negotiated its rights. As long as we continue to see nature as out there even if we see it as out there to be preserved we lose the heart and soul of human nature and our interrelationship with a much larger natural society. In Nature and the Crisis of Modernity, Rogers shows how the financialization of the globe has waged war on local culture and natural habitat, how globalization is creating a world where no community is recognizable except as a financial resource. Rogers is adamant in his warning that a recognition and respect of communities, not money, is the only means to an environmentally viable social future. Raymond A. Rogers received his Ph.D. from York University where he now teaches. He spent twelve of the last fifteen years as a full-time fisherman and part-time carpenter in Little Harbour, Nova Scotia, and is a founding member of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada. He has been active in forging links between the fisheries and environmentalism for the last five years. @ISBN = @ISBN = Paperback ISBN: 1-551640-14-7 @ISBN = Hardcover ISBN: 1-551640-05-5