13. The Betweenness of Monuments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Environmental Hermeneutics 1
5. Part I: Interpretation and the Task of Thinking Environmentally
6. 1. Environmental Hermeneutics Deep in the Forest 17
7. 2. Morrow’ s Ants: E. O. Wilson and Gadamer’s Critique of (Natural) Historicism 36
8. 3. Layering: Body, Building, Biography 65
9. 4. Might Natur e Be Interpreted as a “Saturated Phenomenon”? 82
10. 5. Must Environme ntal Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel 102
11. Part II: Situating the Self
12. 6. Environmental Hermeneutics and Environmental/ Eco-Psychology: Explorations in Environmental Identity 123
13. 7. Environmental Hermeneutics with and for Others: Ricoeur’s Ethics and the Ecological Self 141
14. 8. Bodily Moods and Unhomely Environments: The Hermeneutics of Agoraphobia and the Spirit of Place 160
15. Part III: Narrativity and Image
16. 9. Narrative and Nature: Appreciating and Understanding the Nonhuman World 181
17. 10. The Question Concerning Nature 201
18. 11. New Nature Narratives: Landscape Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics 225
19. Part IV: Environments, Place, and the Experience of Time
20. 12. Memory, Imagination, and the Hermeneutics of Place 245
21. 13. The Betweenness of Monuments 264
22. 14. My Place in the Sun 281
23. 15. How Hermeneutics Might Save the Life of (Environmental) Ethics 297
24. Notes 313
25. A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics 365
26. Contributors 373
27. Index 377