Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics
Author(s): Brian Treanor (Author), Martin Drenthen (Author), David Utsler (Author), Forrest Clingerman (Editor)
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Date: 11 Nov. 2013
Language: English
Print length: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 0823254259
ISBN-13: 9780823254255
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
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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.” Author: ―Mark Wallace Source: Swarthmore College
… Interpreting Nature is engaging throughout and contributes to an important growth in environmental philosophy. Source: ―Environmental Values
“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.” Author: ―Charles Brown Source: Emporia State University
Review
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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Interpreting Nature is engaging throughout and contributes to an important growth in environmental philosophy. ― Environmental ValuesInterpreting 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
About the Author
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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