Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns "wilderness" and "nature" among them are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity tom, history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.
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"This is a superb book, written with clarity, precision, and deep feeling for a better understanding of differing approaches to interpreting the wider natural world." -- -Mark Wallace Swarthmore College "... Interpreting Nature is engaging throughout and contributes to an important growth in environmental philosophy." -Environmental Values "Interpreting Nature is an excellent collection of essays. This collection is a very welcome addition to the literature and helps to move forward philosophical reflection on the idea of 'nature' and charts new and important ways to think about the task of an environmental ethics." -- -Charles Brown Emporia State University
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Brings together leading voices at the intersection of these two increasingly important philosophical discussions: philosophical hermeneutics and environmental philosophy.
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| Introduction: Environmental Hermeneutics |
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Part I Interpretation and the Task of Thinking Environmentally |
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1 Environmental Hermeneutics Deep in the Forest |
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2 Morrow's Ants: E. O. Wilson and Gadamer's Critique of (Natural) Historicism |
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3 Layering: Body, Building, Biography |
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4 Might Nature Be Interpreted as a "Saturated Phenomenon"? |
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Christina M. Gschwandtner |
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5 Must Environmental Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel |
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Part II Situating the Self |
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6 Environmental Hermeneutics and Environmental/Eco-Psychology: Explorations in Environmental Identity |
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7 Environmental Hermeneutics with and for Others: Ricoeur's Ethics and the Ecological Self |
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8 Bodily Moods and Unhomely Environments: The Hermeneutics of Agoraphobia and the Spirit of Place |
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Part III Narrativity and Image |
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9 Narrative and Nature: Appreciating and Understanding the Nonhuman World |
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10 The Question Concerning Nature |
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11 New Nature Narratives: Landscape Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics |
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Part IV Environments, Place, and the Experience of Time |
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12 Memory, Imagination, and the Hermeneutics of Place |
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13 The Betweenness of Monuments |
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15 How Hermeneutics Might Save the Life of (Environmental) Ethics |
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| Notes |
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| A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics |
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| List of Contributors |
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Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), Interpreting Nature (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an "earthy" hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy.
