What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human

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This cultural and historical survey examines the differences between `nature-endorsing' and `nature-sceptical' perspectives. `This is an excellent book. It addresses what, in both conceptual and political terms, is arguably the most important source of tension and confusion in current arguments about the environment.' Russell Keat, University of Edinburgh.

Contents

Introduction. 1. The Discourses of Nature. 2. Nature, Human and Inhuman. 3. Nature Friend and Foe. 4. Nature and Sexual Politics. 5. Nature and 'Nature'. 6. The Space and Time of Nature. 7. Loving Nature. 8. Ecology, Nature and Responsibility.

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Biography

Kate Soper is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of North London. She has worked as a journalist and translator, and has written extensively on politics, philosophy and feminist issues. During the eighties, she was a prominent activist in the END movement. She is a longstanding member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective. Her previous publications include On Human Needs, Humanism and Anti--Humanism, and Troubled Pleasures.