Rationality And Nature

Raymond Murphy is professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is author of Rationality and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry into a Changing Relationship (WestviewPress 1994).

• Preface -- The Intensification of Rationalization and Its Alternatives -- Rationalization Under the Premise of Plasticity -- Rationalization and Ecological Irrationality -- Rationalization Under the Premise of Greenness -- Rerationalization -- Derationalization -- The Sociology of Environmental Degradation -- The Political Economy of Waste -- Accounting for Waste and Accountability for Waste -- Environmental Classes and Environmental Conflict -- Toward a Symbiotic Relationship with Nature -- Science and Applied Science as Partial Knowledge -- Parasitism: A "Light Cloak" or an "Iron Cage"