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Environmental Hermeneutics in the Anthropocene is a diverse collection of essays that approach contemporary environmental problems with the tools and perspectives provided by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics, advanced by philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Contributors PrefaceDavid Utsler & Brian Treanor
IntroductionDavid Utsler & Brian Treanor
1 Earthy Hermeneutics: Beyond the Metaphor of the TextBrian Treanor
2 Translating Nature: Hermeneutics, Otherness, and the Limits of Environmental UnderstandingNathan M. Bell
3 Hermeneutics in the WildernessCassandra Falke
4 Interpretation and the AnthropoceneAlexander Federau
5 The Hermeneutical Challenge of the Anthropocene: Rethinking Environmental HermeneuticsPatryk Szaj
6 Sacrifice Zones and Interpreting the AnthropoceneForrest Clingerman
7 The Beautiful and the Good in Practice: Gadamer and Environmental HermeneuticsWilliam Konchak
8 Is There a Measure on Earth? Heidegger and the Hermeneutical Problems of De-growthMagdalena Höy-¿uczaj
9 Situating Hermeneutics in Environmental Humanities: place, meaning, and interpretationMartinho Soares
10 Interpreting Environmental Sustainability: Envisioning a Sustainable Future with Paul RicoeurMaria Cristina Clorinda Vendra
11 Fragility and Finitude in the Face of the Climate Crisis: On Worldview and ActionChristina M. Gschwandtner
12 Re-Placing DisplacementDavid Utsler
13 Sketching Gadamer's Contribution to Landscape Aesthetics: Play, Space, and HistoricityElena Romagnoli
Afterword: Environmental Justice and the Moral Terrains of Environmental Hermeneutics in the AnthropoceneRobert Melchior Figueroa
About the author
David Utsler teaches philosophy at North Central Texas College (USA). Utsler received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Texas, specializing in philosophical hermeneutics and environmental philosophy. He is a co-editor of
Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics (Fordham 2014) and is the author of
Paul Ricoeur and Environmental Philosophy (Lexington 2024). He has peer-reviewed articles in journals such as
Philosophy Today, Environmental Philosophy, Quaestiones Disputatae, and
Analecta Hermeneutica. Utsler currently serves as the co-director of The International Association for Environmental Philosophy and treasurer for The North Texas Philosophical Association.
Forrest Clingerman was Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Ohio Northern University, USA. He researches on a variety of topics related to environmental thought, including place, climate, aesthetics, and the Anthropocene. He is co-editor of
Arts, Religion, and the Environment: Exploring Nature's Texture (Brill 2018) and
Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics (Fordham 2014).
Brian Treanor is professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, where he teaches courses in environmental philosophy, philosophy and literature, and philosophy of religion, among other subjects. In 2011, he was awarded the President's Fritz B. Burns Distinguished Teaching Award.
He is the author or co-editor of ten books, including:
Melancholic Joy (Bloomsbury 2021),
Philosophy in the American West (Routledge 2020),
Carnal Hermeneutics (Fordham 2015),
Being-in-Creation (Fordham 2015),
Emplotting Virtue (SUNY 2014), and
Interpreting Nature (Fordham 2014). He is currently working on two monographs, one exploring the meaning of "nature" and "wilderness," and the other arguing for the selfhood of non-human nature.
