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Nature Technology and the Sacred

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3777-5

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April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell

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Preface.

Acknowledgements.

PART 1 - MODERNITY, NATURE AND THE SACRED.

1. The disenchantment of the world.

2. Nature, secularization and the transformation of the sacred.

PART 2 - NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY.

3. Nature, science and the death of Pan.

4. Modern technology and the sacred.

PART 3 - THE BODY AND ITS ENVIRONMENT.

5. The body, healing and the sacred.

6. The birth of ‘the environment’.

PART 4 - AGAINST THE TECHNOLOGICAL CONDITION.

7. The politicization of nature.

8. Nature, virtue and everyday life.

9. Nature and public speech.

PART 5 - THE FUTURE OF THE SACRED.

10. The global sacred.

11. Nature, technology and the sacred: a postscript.

Notes.

References.

Index