Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. ONE The Idea of Wilderness: From Paleolithic to Neolithic Culture 1
6. TWO Ancient Mediterranean Ideas of Humankind and Nature: The Passage from Myth to History 31
7. THREE The Alchemy of Modernism: The Transmutation of Wilderness into Nature 68
8. FOUR Wild Nature: Critical Responses to Modernism 97
9. FIVE Henry David Thoreau: Philosopher of the Wilderness 133
10. SIX John Muir: Wilderness Sage 172
11. SEVEN Aldo Leopold and the Age of Ecology 205
12. EIGHT The Idea of Wilderness in the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder 243
13. NINE Contemporary Wilderness Philosophy: From Resourcism to Deep Ecology 281
14. TEN Cosmos and Wilderness: A Postmodern Wilderness Philosophy 320
15. Notes 355
16. Index 461