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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Michael Bess’ The Light-Green Society deals with the rise of French environmentalism and its impact on French society. He shows that while the French embraced technological prowess, they also developed concerns about technology. He argues that the result is a light-green society, a blend of environmentalism and technological enthusiasm that resulted in a "partial greening of the mainstream, in which neither side emerged wholly satisfied, not utterly dismayed, but in which a whole new complex of discourses and institutions nonetheless came into being" (p. 4). Instead of leading to a radical green society, environmentalism became just another choice in the postmodern supermarket of modern consumerism. Rather than lamenting this condition, Bess believes we can build a "constructive and respectful relationship with this kind of potentially wild nature" (p. 295). Nature and culture, technology and society, are impossible to tell apart. Indeed, they can not exist without one another. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new "light-green" social order that has emerged in postwar France, argues Michael Bess in this penetrating new history. On one hand, a preoccupation with natural qualities and equilibrium has increasingly infused France's economic and cultural life. On the other, human activities have laid an ever more potent and pervasive touch on the environment, whether through the intrusion of agriculture, industry, and urban growth, or through the much subtler and more well-intentioned efforts of ecological management. The Light-Green Society limns sharply these trends over the last fifty years. The rise of environmentalism in the 1960s stemmed from a fervent desire to "save" wild nature-nature conceived as a qualitatively distinct domain, wholly separate from human designs and endeavors. And yet, Bess shows, after forty years of environmentalist agitation, much of it remarkably successful in achieving its aims, the old conception of nature as a "separate sphere" has become largely untenable. In the light-green society, where ecology and technological modernity continually flow together, a new hybrid vision of intermingled nature-culture has increasingly taken its place. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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