Rethinking Nature : Essays in Environmental Philosophy

by Foltz, Bruce V.; Frodeman, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780253217028
• ISBN10: 0253217024
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Rethinking Nature brings the voices of leading Continental philosophers into discussion about what is emerging as one of our most pressing and timely concerns -- the environmental crisis facing our planet. The essays featured in this volume embrace environmental philosophy in its broadest sense and include 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. Here, philosophy goes out into the field and comes back with rich insights and new approaches to environmental problems. This far-reaching and lively volume affords firm ground for thinking about the multiple ways that humans engage nature.Contributors are David Abram, Edward S. Casey, Daniel Cerezuelle, Ron Cooper, Bruce V. Foltz, Robert Frodeman, Trish Glazebrook, James Hatley, Robert Kirkman, Irene J. Klaver, Alphonso Lingis, Kenneth Maly, Diane Michelfelder, Elaine P. Miller, Robert Mugerauer, Stephen David Ross, John Sallis, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Bruce Wilshire, David Wood, and Michael E. Zimmerman.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	vii
Introduction: The Nature of Environmental Philosophy
BRUCE V. FOLTZ AND ROBERT FRODEMAN	1	(12)
PART 1. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF NATURE
1. The Uncanny Goodness of Being Edible to Bears
JAMES HATLEY	13	(19)
2. Trees and Truth (or, Why We Are Really All Druids)
DAVID WOOD	32	(12)
3. Boundary Projects versus Border Patrol
IRENE J. KLAVER	44	(11)
4. Children and the Ethics of Place
INGRID LEMAN STEFANOVIC	55	(22)
5. Reciprocity
DAVID ABRAM	77	(18)
PART 2. NATURE AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION
6. Eco-logic: An Erotic of Nature
TRISH GLAZEBROOK	95	(19)
7. Vegetable Genius: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating to the Natural World in Post-Kantian German Thought
ELAINE P. MILLER	114	(21)
8. The Elemental Earth
JOHN SALLIS	135	(14)
PART 3. NATURE AND NATURAL SCIENCE
9. Philosophy in the Field
ROBERT FRODEMAN	149	(16)
10. Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the Human Predicament
ROBERT KIRKMAN	165	(15)
11. Deleuze and Guattari's Return to Science as a Basis for Environmental Philosophy
ROBERT MUGERAUER	180	(27)
PART 4. APPROACHES TO NATURE
12. What Can Continental Philosophy Contribute to Environmentalism?
MICHAEL E. ZIMMERMAN	207	(24)
13. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics: A Difficult Relationship?
DIANE MICHELFELDER	231	(14)
14. Biodiversity, Exuberance, and Abundance: Cherishing the Body of the Earth
STEPHEN DAVID ROSS	245	(15)
15. Mapping the Earth in Works of Art
EDWARD S. CASEY	260	(13)
PART 5. ON THE NATURE OF NATURE
16. The Music of Space
ALPHONSO EINGIS	273	(16)
17. A Sand County Almanac: Through Anthropogenic to Ecogenic Thinking
KENNETH MALY	289	(13)
18. Nature and Nurture: A Non-disjunctive Approach
BRUCE WILSHIRE, WITH RON COOPER	302	(12)
19. Nature and Freedom: An Introduction to the Environmental Thought of Bernard Charbonneau
DANIEL CÉRÉZUELLE	314	(16)
20. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of Givenness
BRUCE V. FOLTZ	330	(13)
CONTRIBUTORS	343	(4)
INDEX	347