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Interpreting Nature
The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics
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Brian Treanor
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Edited by:
Forrest Clingerman
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
About this book
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 to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.
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Contributor: Brian Treanor
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.
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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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... Interpreting Nature is engaging throughout and contributes to an important growth in environmental philosophy.
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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
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Environmental Hermeneutics
1 - 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 Natur e Be Interpreted as a “Saturated Phenomenon”?
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5. Must Environme ntal Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel
102 - 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
160 - 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
225 - 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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14. My Place in the Sun
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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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Contributors
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Index
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eBook published on:
July 20, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780823254286
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Keywords for this book
Eco-Phenomenology; Environmental Ethics; Environmental Philosophy; Hermeneutics; Interpretation
