Malfeasance: Appropriation Through Pollution?

by Michel Serres

Book Overview

In this highly original and provocative book, Michel Serres reflects on the relation between nature and culture and analyzes the origins of the world's contemporary environmental problems. He does so through the surprising proposition that our cleanliness is our dirt. While all living beings pollute to lay claim to their habitat, humans have multiplied pollution's effects catastrophically since the Industrial Revolution through the economic system's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804773033
• ISBN13: 9780804773034
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.6" x 7.0"