Postmodern Environmental Ethics
Published on 17. August 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-0-7914-2548-0 (ISBN)
Description
Explains the role of language in causing and in resolving the ecocrisis and shows that ecologically adaptive behavior can be facilitated through language.
This book explains the role of language in causing and in resolving the ecocrisis, showing that ecologically adaptive behavior can be facilitated through language. The authors explore the discourses of deep ecology, ecofeminism, Judeo-Christianity, quantum theory, and Native American world views, all to the end of empowering ecosocial change.
This book explains the role of language in causing and in resolving the ecocrisis, showing that ecologically adaptive behavior can be facilitated through language. The authors explore the discourses of deep ecology, ecofeminism, Judeo-Christianity, quantum theory, and Native American world views, all to the end of empowering ecosocial change.
Reviews / Votes
"There is no other topic which reflects so penetratingly both the contradictions and the hopes that the contemporary situation holds for us, and these essays serve as a very clear mirror in this respect." - Daniel Kealey, Towson State UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-2548-0 (9780791425480)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Max Oelschlaeger is Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, Denton.
Content
Introduction
Max Oelschlaeger
Part I. Language and Environmental Ethics
1. Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative
Jim Cheney
2. Nature and Silence
Christopher Manes
3. Merleau-Ponty and the Voice of the Earth
David Abram
4. Class, Race, and Gender Discourse in the
Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology Debate
Ariel Salleh
5. Green Reason: Communicative Ethics for the Biosphere
John S. Dryzek
Part II. Environmental Ethics, Postmodern Politics, and the Other
6. Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism: Differences That Make a Difference
Robert Frodeman
7. The Incarceration of Wildness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons
Thomas H. Birch
8. The Call of the Wild: The Struggle Against Domination and the Technological Fix of Nature
Eric Katz
9. Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and
Poststructural Theory
Peter Quigley
10. Traditional American Indian and Western European Attitudes Toward Nature: An Overview
J. Baird Callicott
Part III. Systematic Environmental Ethics Reconsidered
11. Before Environmental Ethics
Anthony Weston
12. Moral Pluralism and the Course of Environmental Ethics
Christopher D. Stone
13. Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism
Mick Smith
14. Quantum Theory, Intrinsic Value, and Panentheism
Michael E. Zimmerman
15. Christian Existence in a World of Limits
John Cobb, Jr.
Index
Max Oelschlaeger
Part I. Language and Environmental Ethics
1. Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative
Jim Cheney
2. Nature and Silence
Christopher Manes
3. Merleau-Ponty and the Voice of the Earth
David Abram
4. Class, Race, and Gender Discourse in the
Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology Debate
Ariel Salleh
5. Green Reason: Communicative Ethics for the Biosphere
John S. Dryzek
Part II. Environmental Ethics, Postmodern Politics, and the Other
6. Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism: Differences That Make a Difference
Robert Frodeman
7. The Incarceration of Wildness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons
Thomas H. Birch
8. The Call of the Wild: The Struggle Against Domination and the Technological Fix of Nature
Eric Katz
9. Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and
Poststructural Theory
Peter Quigley
10. Traditional American Indian and Western European Attitudes Toward Nature: An Overview
J. Baird Callicott
Part III. Systematic Environmental Ethics Reconsidered
11. Before Environmental Ethics
Anthony Weston
12. Moral Pluralism and the Course of Environmental Ethics
Christopher D. Stone
13. Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism
Mick Smith
14. Quantum Theory, Intrinsic Value, and Panentheism
Michael E. Zimmerman
15. Christian Existence in a World of Limits
John Cobb, Jr.
Index