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Rethinking Nature - Essays in Environmental Philosophy

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Informationen zum Autor Bruce V. Foltz is Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has published numerous articles on environmental philosophy and the philosophy of technology.Robert Frodeman is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He is also Director of the New Directions Initiative and the Global Climate Change and Society program. His works include Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and Earth Sciences and other essays in environmental thought. Klappentext Zimmerman. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Nature of Environmental PhilosophyBruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman Part 1. The Phenomenology of Nature 1. The Uncanny Goodness of Being Edible to BearsJames Hatley 2. Trees and Truth (or, Why We Are Really All Druids)David Wood 3. Boundary Projects versus Border PatrolIrene J. Klaver 4. Children and the Ethics of PlaceIngrid Leman Stefanovic 5. ReciprocityDavid Abram Part 2. Nature and the Philosophical Tradition 6. Eco-logic: An Erotic of NatureTrish Glazebrook 7. Vegetable Genius: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating to the Natural World in Post-Kantian German ThoughtElaine P. Miller 8. The Elemental EarthJohn Sallis Part 3. Nature and Natural Science 9. Philosophy in the FieldRobert Frodeman 10. Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the Human PredicamentRobert Kirkman 11. Deleuze and Guattari's Return to Science as a Basis for Environmental PhilosophyRobert 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 EarthStephen David Ross 15. Mapping the Earth in Works of ArtEdward S. Casey Part 5. On the Nature of Nature 16. The Music of SpaceAlphonso Lingis 17. A Sand County Almanac: Through Anthropogenic to Ecogenic ThinkingKenneth Maly 18. Nature and Nurture: A Non-disjunctive ApproachBruce Wilshire, with Ron Cooper 19. Nature and Freedom: An Introduction to the Environmental Thought of Bernard CharbonneauDaniel Cérézuelle 20. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of GivennessBruce V. Foltz Contributors Index ...

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Authors Bruce Frodeman Foltz, Bruce V. Frodeman Foltz, Robert Frodeman
Assisted by Bruce Foltz (Editor), Bruce V. Foltz (Editor), Robert Frodeman (Editor)
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.11.2004
 
EAN 9780253217028
ISBN 978-0-253-21702-8
No. of pages 368
Series Studies in Continental Thought
Studies in Continental Thought
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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