Authenticity In Nature

Author : Nigel Dudley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136472558

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This book examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discusses its values and considers choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author argues that all ecosystems have been modified and the idea of places 'untouched by humans' is a myth. But there are large differences in the degree of modification and levels of naturalness which can be identified. Changes are not always irreversible; some apparent wilderness areas are sites of former civilizations. There is no longer any simple distinction possible between 'natural' and 'cultural' systems. In the future, society will, to some extent, choose the degree of naturalness in land and seascapes. The growth of protected areas is an early sign of this, as are changes in forest management, dam removal and control of invasive species. To make informed choices about these areas, the author shows that we must understand the characteristics and values of naturally regulating ecosystems – their practical benefits, social values and management needs. Authenticity in Nature uses a rigorous definition of authenticity to help in the understanding and measurement of naturalness. It discusses the choices facing us and some of the information we need to make decisions relating to land and water management. Practical issues of management and numerous terrestrial and aquatic examples from around the world are discussed. It is an optimistic and highly original book, aiming to make genuine advances in our understanding and management of natural systems.

Author : Martin A. M. Drenthen,F.W. Jozef Keulartz,James Proctor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048126118

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New Visions of Nature by Martin A. M. Drenthen,F.W. Jozef Keulartz,James Proctor Pdf

"New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms in on micro nature and explores the world of contemporary genomics. The final section returns to the macro world and discusses the ethics of place in present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an ‘out there’ and ‘in here.’ They attempt to specify how nature has been publicly and genomically constructed, known and described through metaphors and re-envisioned in terms of landscape and place. By parsing out and rendering explicit these divergent views, the volume asks for a re-thinking of our relationship with nature.

Author : Nigel Dudley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Authenticity (Philosophy).
ISBN : 1844078361

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First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Len Chmiel,Amy Scott,Jean Stern
Publisher : Rose Fredrick Fine Art Pub
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 098336852X

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Len Chmiel by Len Chmiel,Amy Scott,Jean Stern Pdf

Featuring lush reproductions of the landscapes of American artist Len Chmiel, this book depicts four decades of the artist's melodic, evocative, and often abstracted depictions of the land. Amy Scott contributes a fine essay discussing Chmiel's formative years as an illustrator in Los Angeles through his subsequent move to Colorado, where he turned from illustration and dove into fine art exclusively.

Author : Maiken Umbach,Mathew Humphrey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319685663

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Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept by Maiken Umbach,Mathew Humphrey Pdf

Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was invented. Many academics have sought to "unmask" authenticity claims as deceptive. This book takes a different approach. In chapters covering historical and contemporary examples, the authors explore why authenticity, real or imagined, exercises such a powerful hold on our imaginations. The chapters trace how invocations of authenticity borrow from one another, across arenas such as philosophy and theology, encounters with nature, leisure, and mass consumption, political and corporate leadership, left-wing and right-wing ideologies. This cultural history of authenticity is of interest to academic and lay readers alike, who are interested in the significance and history of a concept that shapes how we understand ourselves and the world we live in.

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9780674987692

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The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor Pdf

Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges. "The great merit of Taylor's brief, non-technical, powerful book...is the vigor with which he restates the point which Hegel (and later Dewey) urged against Rousseau and Kant: that we are only individuals in so far as we are social... Being authentic, being faithful to ourselves, is being faithful to something which was produced in collaboration with a lot of other people... The core of Taylor's argument is a vigorous and entirely successful criticism of two intertwined bad ideas: that you are wonderful just because you are you, and that 'respect for difference' requires you to respect every human being, and every human culture--no matter how vicious or stupid." --Richard Rorty, London Review of Books

Author : Andrew Potter
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551993478

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The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter Pdf

One of Canada's hippest, smartest cultural critics takes on the West's defining value. We live in a world increasingly dominated by the fake, the prepackaged, the artificial: fast food, scripted reality TV shows, Facebook "friends," and fraudulent memoirs. But people everywhere are demanding the exact opposite, heralding "authenticity" as the cure for isolated individualism and shallow consumerism. Restaurants promote the authenticity of their cuisine, while condo developers promote authentic loft living and book reviewers regularly praise the authenticity of a new writer's voice. International bestselling author Andrew Potter brilliantly unpacks our modern obsession with authenticity. In this perceptive and thought-provoking blend of pop culture, history, and philosophy, he finds that far from serving as a refuge from modern living, the search for authenticity often creates the very problems it's meant to solve.

Author : Godehard Brüntrup,Michael Reder,Liselotte Gierstl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783658296612

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Authenticity by Godehard Brüntrup,Michael Reder,Liselotte Gierstl Pdf

Today, authenticity is considered an essential part of manifold interpersonal relationships, actions, and agreements. Authenticity’s association with sincerity, honesty, and reliability not only normatively charges the term in the context of social coexistence, but also makes it a demand which we impose on ourselves: The success of our lives is measured decisively by whether we live in harmony with our own convictions, wishes and needs. In philosophy, authenticity has also become the focus of interest, both in the context of the mechanisms of self-knowledge, as well as of personal development. The anthology aims to expand the cooperation across disciplines, in order to develop a comprehensive and profound understanding of authenticity, not by over-simplifying the highly complex subject, but by approaching the underlying concept from different scientific perspectives.

Author : Alexander Geurds,Laura Van Broekhoven
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789088902055

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Creating Authenticity by Alexander Geurds,Laura Van Broekhoven Pdf

‘Authenticity’ and authentication is at the heart of museums’ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discrete bounded entities, subject to divergence but precisely therefore also to be traced back and linked to, a more complete original form in de (even) deeper past. Much of what we work with today in ethnographic museum collections testifies to that conviction. Post-structural thinking brought about a far-reaching deconstruction of the authentic. It came to be recognized that both far-away communities and the deep past can only be discussed when seen as desires, constructions and inventions. Notwithstanding this undressing of the ways in which people portray their cultural surroundings and past, claims of authenticity and quests for authentication remain omnipresent. This book explores the authentic in contemporary ethnographic museums, as it persists in dialogues with stakeholders, and how museums portray themselves. How do we interact with questions of authenticity and authentication when we curate, study artefacts, collect, repatriate, and make (re)presentations? The contributing authors illustrate the divergent nature in which the authentic is brought into play, deconstructed and operationalized. Authenticity, the book argues, is an expression of a desire that is equally troubled as it is resilient.

Author : Martin A. M. Drenthen,F. W. Jozef Keulartz,James Proctor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 904812610X

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New Visions of Nature by Martin A. M. Drenthen,F. W. Jozef Keulartz,James Proctor Pdf

"New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms in on micro nature and explores the world of contemporary genomics. The final section returns to the macro world and discusses the ethics of place in present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an ‘out there’ and ‘in here.’ They attempt to specify how nature has been publicly and genomically constructed, known and described through metaphors and re-envisioned in terms of landscape and place. By parsing out and rendering explicit these divergent views, the volume asks for a re-thinking of our relationship with nature.

Author : Thomas Fillitz,A. Jamie Saris
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857454973

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Debating Authenticity by Thomas Fillitz,A. Jamie Saris Pdf

The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of view and considers authenticity in terms of how meaning is produced in and through discourses about authenticity. Incorporating case studies from four continents, the topics reach from art and colonialism to exoticism-primitivism, film, ritual and wilderness. Some contributors emphasise the dichotomy between the academic use of the term and the one deployed in public spaces and political projects. All, however, consider authenticity as something that can only be understood ethnographically, and not as a simple characteristic or category used to distinguish some behaviors, experiences or material things from other less authentic versions.

Author : Kevin C. Armitage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39076002859762

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The Nature Study Movement by Kevin C. Armitage Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the nature study movement and its significance to American environmental thought and politics. Argues that nature study advocates, through their systematic program or educating children about nature, formed a critical foundation for the launching of the conservation movement.

Author : Xunwu Chen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004495807

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Being and Authenticity by Xunwu Chen Pdf

This book presents a creative approach to the problem of individual authenticity. What is authenticity? What are its necessary conditions? How is an authentic self possible in society? What are the relationships of authenticity, morality, and happiness? The book examines a wide range of questions in Eastern and Western thought, to which it gives novel answers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DA'WA BOOKS
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Authenticity of Quran by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jillian M. Rickly,Elizabeth S. Vidon
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787548183

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Authenticity & Tourism by Jillian M. Rickly,Elizabeth S. Vidon Pdf

This book brings together contributions from authors who are actively engaged in authenticity research in a tourism context. In so doing, it demonstrates the various trajectories research has taken towards understanding the significance of authenticity.