Society and Nature: Changing Our Environment, Changing Ourselves

This Book and How to Use It.

Introduction. Society, Nature and Enlightenment.

Changing Nature, Changing Ourselves.

The Age of Enlightenment.

Enlightenment’s Shadow.

The Age of Enlightenment and This Book.

References and Further Reading.

1. Introducing Key Themes:.

Overview.

Contributions from Evolutionary Thought.

The Decline of Community?.

Industry and Production.

A Risk Society?.

Summary.

References and Further Reading.

2. Industry and Environmental Transformation:.

Overview.

Industry and Humanity’s Metabolism with Nature.

Social Evolution, Biological Evolution and Marx.

Risk and the Metabolic Rift.

Community: a New Basis for Industrial Production.

Summary.

References and Further Reading.

3. Commodifying the Environment:.

Overview.

Commodification and Industry.

Commodification and Community.

Commodifying Evolution?.

Commodification and ‘Manufactured Risk’.

Summary.

4. Consumption, The Environment and Human Identity:.

Overview.

Society and Nature: Over-Consumption as the Problem?.

Consumption and the Making of Community.

‘The Consumer Society’: the Final Stage of Social Evolution?.

Industry and Consumption.

The Risk Society: Poverty and Industry as the Issue.

Summary.

References and Further Reading.

5. Industrial Change, the Network Society and Human Identity:.

Overview.

An Evolved Human Nature?.

Industrial Development, the Network Society and Changes to Human Nature.

The Network Society and Virtual Community.

Psychic Structure, Network Society and Evolution.

Postfordism, the Network Society and Risk.

Summary.

References and Further Reading.

6. Modifying Human Biology:.

Overview.

Industrialising Birth, Improving Humans?.

Improving on Evolution: Genes and the Good Life.

Community and Human Development.

Human Transformation and The Risk Society.

Summary.

References and Further Reading.

7. Society, Nature and Citizenship:.

Overview.

Society, Politics and Rights.

The Evolution of Rights?.

Industry and Citizenship.

Citizenship as Community.

Citizenship as Risk.

Summary.

References and Further Reading.

8. Society, Nature and the New Social Movements:.

Overview.

The New Social Movements.

Social Evolution and Risk.

New Social Movements: Revealing and Making Community.

Human Evolution and the Recovery of Human Nature.

Summary.

References and Further Reading.

Glossary of Terms.

Index