Rethinking nature : essays in environmental philosophy
Bruce Vernon Foltz, Robert Frodeman, Indiana University Press (Publisher)
A 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.
Print Book, English, 2004
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2004
VI, [4], 357 s. ; 24 cm.
9780253344403, 9780253217028, 0253344409, 0253217024
1423884446
ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Nature of Environmental Philosophy Bruce V. Foltz and Robert FrodemanPart 1. The Phenomenology of Nature1. The Uncanny Goodness of Being Edible to Bears James Hatley2. Trees and Truth (or, Why We Are Really All Druids) David Wood3. Boundary Projects versus Border Patrol Irene J. Klaver4. Children and the Ethics of Place Ingrid Leman Stefanovic5. Reciprocity David AbramPart 2. Nature and the Philosophical Tradition6. Eco-logic: An Erotic of Nature Trish Glazebrook7. Vegetable Genius: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating to the Natural World in Post-Kantian German Thought Elaine P. Miller8. The Elemental Earth John SallisPart 3. Nature and Natural Science9. Philosophy in the Field Robert Frodeman10. Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the Human Predicament Robert Kirkman11. Deleuze and Guattari's Return to Science as a Basis for Environmental Philosophy Robert MugerauerPart 4. Approaches to Nature12. What Can Continental Philosophy Contribute to Environmentalism? Michael E. Zimmerman13. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics: A Difficult Relationship? Diane Michelfelder14. Biodiversity, Exuberance, and Abundance: Cherishing the Body of the Earth Stephen David Ross15. Mapping the Earth in Works of Art Edward S. CaseyPart 5. On the Nature of Nature16. The Music of Space Alphonso Lingis17. A Sand County Almanac: Through Anthropogenic to Ecogenic Thinking Kenneth Maly18. Nature and Nurture: A Non-disjunctive Approach Bruce Wilshire, with Ron Cooper19. Nature and Freedom: An Introduction to the Environmental Thought of Bernard Charbonneau Daniel Cérézuelle20. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of Givenness Bruce V. FoltzContributorsIndex