Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, which embrace environmental philosophy in its broadest sense. It covers topics such as environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, ontology, theology, gender and the environment, and the role of science and technology in forming knowledge about our world.
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nature of Environmental Philosophy Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman
Part 1. The Phenomenology of Nature
1. The Uncanny Goodness of Being Edible to Bears James Hatley
2. Trees and Truth (or, Why We Are Really All Druids) David Wood
3. Boundary Projects versus Border Patrol Irene J. Klaver
4. Children and the Ethics of Place Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
5. Reciprocity David Abram
Part 2. Nature and the Philosophical Tradition
6. Eco-logic: An Erotic of Nature Trish Glazebrook
7. Vegetable Genius: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating to the Natural World in Post-Kantian German Thought Elaine P. Miller
8. The Elemental Earth John Sallis
Part 3. Nature and Natural Science
9. Philosophy in the Field Robert Frodeman
10. Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the Human Predicament Robert Kirkman
11. Deleuze and Guattari's Return to Science as a Basis for Environmental Philosophy Robert Mugerauer
Part 4. Approaches to Nature
12. What Can Continental Philosophy Contribute to Environmentalism? Michael E. Zimmerman
13. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics: A Difficult Relationship? Diane Michelfelder
14. Biodiversity, Exuberance, and Abundance: Cherishing the Body of the Earth Stephen David Ross
15. Mapping the Earth in Works of Art Edward S. Casey
Part 5. On the Nature of Nature
16. The Music of Space Alphonso Lingis
17. A Sand County Almanac: Through Anthropogenic to Ecogenic Thinking Kenneth Maly
18. Nature and Nurture: A Non-disjunctive Approach Bruce Wilshire, with Ron Cooper
19. Nature and Freedom: An Introduction to the Environmental Thought of Bernard Charbonneau Daniel Cérézuelle
20. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of Givenness Bruce V. Foltz
Contributors
Index
