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Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism v. 3; Cultures of Nature - An Essay on the Production of Nature (Hardcover)
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Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism v. 3; Cultures of Nature - An Essay on the Production of Nature (Hardcover)
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"Philosophically challenging. . . . Hazelrigg's thesis seems to
catch everyone short."--Steve Fuller, executive editor, Social
Epistemology "A quality piece of work; the central problematic is
clearly articulated and important; the theoretical analyses are
sophisticated and subtle; and the narrative is well crafted. . . .
The focus of this work is at the heart of core issues now being
discussed by much larger circles of interdisciplinary social
theorists and cultural studies scholars."--Robert Antonio,
University of Kansas Lawrence Hazelrigg's thesis, argued in this
concluding work of his trilogy, is that "nature, under any
description whatsoever, is thoroughly a humanly made existence."
Nature is a cultural production, he says, and any distinction
between nature and culture is drawn from the relations of power
that characterize a particular culture. In this innovative vision
of the very foundation of social theory, he sets out some of the
terms and relationships of the nature-culture polarity and offers a
map of the "circuits and relays" that exist between "that which
counts as knowledge and that which counts as power." He extends the
mapping to issues of philosophical anthropology and the
"production" of human nature (and the Marxian roots of this
production) and then examines three situations in which the
circuits and relays operate in European and Euroamerican cultures:
the sixteenth-century invention of culture; modern inventions of
primitiveness; and "a long sequence of practices of sexing nature's
body." In conclusion, he addresses the question of an ecologism
that begins to glimpse the artificiality of nature (the new "crisis
of nature") and which must work anew to understand what counts as
knowledge. This work will be an important source for students in
the growing area of sociology of culture as well as for scholars in
philosophy, social and political theory, ethnography, and feminism
and others interested in the social construction of nature and the
politics of environmentalism. Lawrence Hazelrigg is professor of
sociology at Florida State University. He is the author of A
Wilderness of Mirrors and Claims of Knowledge (both UPF, 1989), the
first two books of this trilogy, and of Class, Conflict, and
Mobility and Prison within Society.
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