Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Activism

by Marietta, Don, Jr.; Embree, Lester; Callicott, J Baird; Casey, Timothy; Embrece, Lester; Klaver, Irene J.; Marietta, Don E., Jr.; Melle, Ullrich; Norton, Bryan G.; Rawles, Kate; Varner, Gary E.; Watson, Richard A.; Wenz, Peter S.

• ISBN13: 9780847680559
• ISBN10: 084768055X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection of new essays by eleven distinguished environmental philosophers addresses two main questions: first, whether environmental philosophy and ethics should be seen as a form of applied philosophy or as something else, perhaps best called practical philosophy; and second, how environmental philosophy is practiced in human life, especially in the lives of academics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind	p. 19
The Environmental Roots of Environmental Activism	p. 37
Phenomenology of Action for Ecosystemic Health or How to Tend One's Own Garden	p. 51
The Implicit Practice of Environmental Philosophy	p. 67
Reflection and Environmental Activism	p. 79
How Deep Is Deep Enough? Ecological Modernization or Farewell to the World-City?	p. 99
Applied Philosophy vs. Practical Philosophy: Toward an Environmental Policy Integrated According to Scale	p. 125
The Missing Shade of Green	p. 149
Can Animal Rights Activists Be Environmentalists?	p. 169
The Identity Crisis in Environmental Philosophy	p. 203
Environmental Activism and Appropriate Monism	p. 215
Index	p. 229
About the Contributors	p. 233
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