{"product_id":"the-natural-alien-2","title":"The Natural Alien","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this eloquent and sympathetic book, Evernden evaluates the international environmental movement and the underlying assumptions that could doom it to failure. Beginning with a simple definition of environmentalists as \"those who confess a concern for the non-human,\" he reviews what is inherent in industrial societies to make them so resistant to the concerns of environmentalists. His analysis draws on citing such diverse sources as Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and \u003cem\u003eTIME\u003c\/em\u003e, and examines how we tend to think about the world and how we might think about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book does not offer solutions to environmental questions, but it does offer the hope that there can be new ways of thinking and flexibility in human\/environmental relations. Although humans seem alienated from our the natural world, we can develop a new understanding of `self in the world.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second edition has a new preface and an epilogue in which Evernden analyses the latest environmental catch-phrase: sustainable development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Neil Evernden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56219044872572,"sku":null,"price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442658202.jpg?v=1768195592","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-natural-alien-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}