{"product_id":"interpreting-nature-9780823254262","title":"Interpreting Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays examines the various intersections between philosophical hermeneutics and environmental philosophy. Adopting a broad and inclusive understanding of our relation with the environment, it investigates a number of important topics for contemporary environmental thought, including the self, history, ethics, culture, and narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a superb book, written with clarity, precision, and deep feeling for a better understanding of differing approaches to interpreting the wider natural world.\" -- -Mark Wallace Swarthmore College \"... Interpreting Nature is engaging throughout and contributes to an important growth in environmental philosophy.\" -Environmental Values \"Interpreting Nature is an excellent collection of essays. This collection is a very welcome addition to the literature and helps to move forward philosophical reflection on the idea of 'nature' and charts new and important ways to think about the task of an environmental ethics.\" -- -Charles Brown Emporia State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments     Introduction: Environmental Hermeneutics    David Utsler, Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and Brian Treanor      Part I: Interpretation and the Task of Thinking Environmentally    1. Hermeneutics Deep in the Woods    John van Buren    2. Morrow's Ants: E. O. Wilson and Gadamer's Critique of (Natural) Historicism    Mick Smith    3. Layering: Body, Building, Biography    Robert Mugerauer    4. Might Nature Be Interpreted as a \"Saturated Phenomenon\"?    Christina M. Gschwandtner    5. Must Environmental Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel    W. S. K. Cameron     Part II: Situating the Self    6. Environmental Hermeneutics and Environmental\/Eco-Psychology: Explorations in Environmental Identity    David Utsler    7. Environmental Hermeneutics With and For Others: Ricoeur's Ethics and the Ecological Self    Nathan Bell    8. Bodily Moods and Unhomely Environments: The Hermeneutics of Agoraphobia and the Spirit of Place    Dylan Trigg     Part III: Narrativity and Image    9. Narrative and Nature: Appreciating and Understanding the Nonhuman World    Brian Treanor    10. The Question Concerning Nature    Sean McGrath    11. New Nature Narratives: Landscape Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics    Martin Drenthen     Part IV: Environments, Place, and the Experience of Time    12. Memory, Imagination, and the Hermeneutics of Place    Forrest Clingerman    13. The Betweenness of Monuments    Janet Donohoe    14. My Place in the Sun    David Wood    15. How Hermeneutics Might Save the Life of (Environmental) Ethics    Paul Van Tongeren and Paulien Snellen     Notes    A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics    List of Contributors    Index","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406136189271,"sku":"9780823254262","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823254262.jpg?v=1730494647","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interpreting-nature-9780823254262","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}