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Overview"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 tom, history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Forrest Clingerman (Ohio Northern University) , Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount Univeristy) , Martin Drenthen (Radboud University Nijmegen) , David Utsler (University of North Texas)Publisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823260959ISBN 10: 082326095 Publication Date: 22 May 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""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 ""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 ""The essays...reveal and explicated myriad ways in which, narratives and interpretations mediate experience and action, and inform one's responses to, and interactions with, various environments. . .Recommended.""--Choice Magazine" 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 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 The essays...reveal and explicated myriad ways in which, narratives and interpretations mediate experience and action, and inform one's responses to, and interactions with, various environments. . .Recommended. --Choice Magazine Author InformationForrest Clingerman is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Ohio Northern University. Brian Treanor is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University David Utsler is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas. Martin Drenthen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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