Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature
- ISBN-10
- 0262029103
- ISBN-13
- 9780262029100
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-05-15
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Steven Vogel
Description
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of "nature" altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.
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- 2016-09-02
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