Ecological thinking the politics of epistemic location
Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific practice, this book presents the creative restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of knowledge. It critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract individualism and exploitation of people and places legiti...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2006, 2006
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| Series: | Studies in feminist philosophy / Studies in feminist philosophy
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific practice, this book presents the creative restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of knowledge. It critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract individualism and exploitation of people and places legitimated by western epistemologies |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 322 p. ill |
| ISBN: | 9780199786411 0199786410 |