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Book SynopsisNature in Our Culture shows that today''s environmental problems are not a consequence of an incorrect science, but of the evolution of Western society. Friedrich W. Sixel acknowledges that the dominant culture that has evolved in modernity serves, primarily, the dominance of that culture. An egoistic instrumentalism forces the modern individual to view everything in terms of its usefulness. Sixel argues that only a culture that resurrects in itself its own Nature-ness will rectify our presently problematic Nature.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The "Environmental" Issue: Chapter 4 Our Problems with Nature Reveal Our Problematic Nature Chapter 5 The Evolution of Western Society: Chapter 6 Introductory Note: Evolution v. History Chapter 7 Absolutism, Early Capitalism and Their Forms of Colonialism Chapter 8 Industrial Capitalism and the New Colonialism Chapter 9 Late Capitalism: "Liberation" and Global "Development" Chapter 10 Modernity: The Culture of Power and Its Immunity Chapter 11 The Alternative to Today's Praxis: Goethe's Understanding of Nature: Chapter 12 Introductory Note: Our Coming to Goethe Chapter 13 The Evolvement of the Phenomenon Goethe Chapter 14 Goethe's Praxis and Concept of Science Chapter 15 Afterword Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Selected Readings Chapter 18 Index
