Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind's view and understanding of the physical world.

List of contents

Alphabetical list of contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Buddha, fifth century BCE; Chuang Tzu, fourth century BCE; Aristotle, 384-322 BCE; Virgil, 70-19 BCE; Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/1-1226; Wang Yang-ming, 1472-1528; Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92; Francis Bacon, 1561-1626; Benedict Spinoza, 1632-77; Basho, 1644-94; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-78; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832; Thomas Robert Mathus, 1766-1834; William Wordsworth, 1770-1850; John Clare, 1793-1864; Ralph Wardo Emerson, 1803-82; Charles Darwin, 1809-82; Henry David Thoreau, 1817-62; Karl Marx, 1818-83; John Ruskin, 1819-1900; Frederick Law Olmstead, 1822-1903; John Muir, 1838-1914; Anna Botsford Comstock, 1854-1930; Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941; Black Elk, 1862-1950; Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959; Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948; Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965; Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948; Robinson Jeffers, 1887-1962; Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976; Rachel Carson, 1907-64; Lynn White, Jr, 1907-87; E.F. Schumacher, 1911-77; Arne Naess, 1912-; John Passmore, 1914-; James Lovelock, 1919-; Ian McHarg, 1920-; Murray Bookchin, 1921-; Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929-; Paul Ehrlich, 1932-; Holmes Rolston III, 1932-; Rudolf Bahro, 1935-97; Gro Harlem Brundtland, 1939-; Val Plumwood, 1939-; J. Baird Callicott, 1941-; Susan Griffin, 1943-; Chico Mendes, 1944-88; Peter Singer, 1846-; Vandana Shiva, 1952-

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Joy A. Palmer

Summary

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.

Product details

• Assisted by: David Cooper (Editor), David E. Cooper (Editor), Cooper David (Editor), Cooper David E. (Editor), Peter Blaze Corcoran (Editor), Joy A. Palmer (Editor), Palmer Joy A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2000
• EAN: 9780415146982
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14698-2
• No. of pages: 321
• Weight: 521 g
• Series: Routledge Key Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History: specific events & topics, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, History: specific events and topics, Environmentalist thought and ideology