Rethinking Nature Essays in Environmental Philosophy [Paperback]

Rethinking Nature brings the voices of leading Continental philosophers into discussion about what is emerging as one of our most pressing and timely concernsthe environmental crisis facing our planet. The essays featured in this volume embrace environmental philosophy in its broadest sense and include topics such as environmental ethics, environmental aesthetics, ontology, theology, gender and the environment, and the role of science and technology in forming knowledge about our world. Here, philosophy goes out into the field and comes back with rich insights and new approaches to environmental problems. This far-reaching and lively volume affords firm ground for thinking about the multiple ways that humans engage nature.

Contributors are David Abram, Edward S. Casey, Daniel Cerezuelle, Ron Cooper, Bruce V. Foltz, Robert Frodeman, Trish Glazebrook, James Hatley, Robert Kirkman, Irene J. Klaver, Alphonso Lingis, Kenneth Maly, Diane Michelfelder, Elaine P. Miller, Robert Mugerauer, Stephen David Ross, John Sallis, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Bruce Wilshire, David Wood, and Michael E. Zimmerman.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nature of Environmental Philosophy Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman
Part 1. The Phenomenology of Nature
1. The Uncanny Goodness of Being Edible to Bears James Hatley
2. Trees and Truth (or, Why We Are Really All Druids) David Wood
3. Boundary Projects versus Border Patrol Irene J. Klaver
4. Children and the Ethics of Place Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
5. Reciprocity David Abram
Part 2. Nature and the Philosophical Tradition
6. Eco-logic: An Erotic of Nature Trish Glazebrook
7. Vegetable Genius: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating to the Natural World in Post-Kantian German Thought Elaine P. Miller
8. The Elemental Earth John Sallis
Part 3. Nature and Natural Science
9. Philosophy in the Field Robert Frodeman
10. Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the lƒ¸