Trash talks [electronic resource] : revelations in the rubbish / Elizabeth V. Spelman.

Trash talks [electronic resource] : revelations in the rubbish / Elizabeth V. Spelman.

9780190239381 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (ix, 238 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190239350 doi

TD793 .S64 2016eb

306.46

People's notorious habits of disposal appear to have put them well on the way to making the earth inhospitable to life. But their relation to rejectamenta includes much more than shedding and tossing. Trash Talks offers a portrait of the intimate ties people maintain with the dumped and discarded. Scavenging with abandon from sundry sources, including Veblen, Darwin, Freud, Plato, Buddha, Milton, and Locke, the book explores the extent to which people rely on trash and waste to make sense of their lives and to shape connections with others.

People's notorious habits of disposal appear to have put them well on the way to making the earth inhospitable to life. But their relation to rejectamenta includes much more than shedding and tossing. Trash Talks offers a portrait of the intimate ties people maintain with the dumped and discarded. Scavenging with abandon from sundry sources, including Veblen, Darwin, Freud, Plato, Buddha, Milton, and Locke, the book explores the extent to which people rely on trash and waste to make sense of their lives and to shape connections with others.

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