{"product_id":"9780802077851","title":"The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this eloquent and sympathetic book, Evernden evaluates the international environmental movement and the underlying assumptions that could doom it to failure. Beginning with a simple definition of environmentalists as \"those who confess a concern for the non-human,\" he reviews what is inherent in industrial societies to make them so resistant to the concerns of environmentalists. His analysis draws on citing such diverse sources as Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, and examines how we tend to think about the world and how we might think about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book does not offer solutions to environmental questions, but it does offer the hope that there can be new ways of thinking and flexibility in human\/environmental relations. Although humans seem alienated from our the natural world, we can develop a new understanding of 'self in the world.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second edition has a new preface and an epilogue in which Evernden analyses the latest environmental catch-phrase: sustainable development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011361259760,"sku":"9780802077851","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802077851_p0.jpg?v=1763665125","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802077851","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}