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Interpreting Nature (eBook, PDF)

The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

Redaktion: Clingerman, Forrest

Beschreibung

Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concernsGCoGCGBPwildernessGC and GCGBPnatureGC among themGCoare 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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Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823254286
• Artikelnr.: 44782252