The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge
Human dependence on technology has increased exponentially over the past several centuries, along with the notion that environmental problems can be solved with scientific applications. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge proposes an alternative to this hubristic, shortsighted, and dangerous worldview. The contributors offer profound arguments for the advantages of an ignorance-based worldview. Examining the relationship between the land and the future generations who will depend on it, they propose that, while we cannot improve upon nature, by putting this new perspective to work in our professio…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Jackson, Wes (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8131-9258-1
- EAN: 9780813192581
- Produktnummer: 5398391
- Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 568 g
- Gewicht: 568
Über den Autor
Bill Vitek, professor of philosophy at Clarkson University, is the author of several books, including Promising, Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place, and Applying Philosophy. He lives in Postdam, New York.Wes Jackson, president of the Land Institute and former professor at Kansas Wesleyan and California State universities, is the author of several books, including Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place, Becoming Native to this Place, and Altars of an Unhewn Stone. He lives in Salina, Kansas.
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