Environmental Philosophy

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Toward Environmental Wholeness

Offers a unified vision for approaching human ethical responses to what science is telling us about the crises facing our environment and climate.

Grounding God

Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.

Value, Beauty, and Nature

Argues that, to make progress within environmental ethics, philosophers must explicitly engage in environmental metaphysics.

A Passionate Life

The first full biography of W. H. H. Murray (1849-1904), a Boston preacher often described as the father of the American outdoor movement and the modern vacation.

Bitter Harvest

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

The Threefold Struggle

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.

Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds

Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.

Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly

Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.

Wild Diplomacy

Explores how humans and wildlife such as wolves can cohabit with mutual respect in the same territories.

Naturalizing God?

Evaluates religious naturalists’ attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions.

The Seasons

Edited by Luke Fischer & David Macauley
Subjects: Philosophy

Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.

Garbage in Popular Culture

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

A World Not Made for Us

Proposes a nonanthropocentric reassessment of key themes and approaches in environmental philosophy

E-Co-Affectivity

Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of affectivity in various forms of life.

Manufactured Uncertainty

By Lorraine Code
Subjects: Philosophy

Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.

Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

The Imagination of Plants

Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia.

The Distortion of Nature's Image

Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.

P'ungsu

Edited by Hong-key Yoon
Subjects: Asian Studies

The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens.

Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place

Examines religious communities as advocates of environmental stewardship and sustainable agriculture practices.

Whitehead's Religious Thought

Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.

Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism

Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism.

Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth

Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.

The Variety of Integral Ecologies

Presents integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences, and biophysical sciences.

Naturalizing Heidegger

Explores the evolution of Heidegger’s thinking about nature and its relevance for environmental ethics.

Philosophizing ad Infinitum

An original and insightful account of nature and our place in it from one of France's preeminent historians of philosophy.

Hans Jonas's Ethic of Responsibility

Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.

The Barbarian Principle

Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance.

Emplotting Virtue

A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.

Critical Animal Studies

By Dawne McCance
Subjects: Philosophy

Comprehensive overview of key theoretical approaches and issues in the field.

Radical Ecopsychology, Second Edition

Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.

Nature and Logos

Exploration of Alfred North Whitehead's influence on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ontology of nature.

Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy

Locates in Schelling a new understanding of our relation to nature in philosophy.

Elemental Philosophy

Explores the ancient and perennial notion of the four elements as environmental ideas.

Ecotheology and the Practice of Hope

Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world and the place of humans within it.

Plants as Persons

Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants.

Radicalizing Levinas

Levinas ahead of his time--and himself--on politics, postcolonialism and globalization, animals and the environment, and science and technology.

The Dance of Person and Place

Uses the concept of "worldmaking" to provide an introduction to American Indian philosophy.

If Creation Is a Gift

Brings an ecotheological perspective to postmodern gift theory.

Religious Naturalism Today

Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.

The Trinity and Creation in Augustine

Looks at Augustine’s theology in light of environmental concerns.

Before the Voice of Reason

Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

Onto-Ethologies

Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.

Living with Ambiguity

How a religion based on the sacredness of nature deals with the problem of evil.

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher

Collected essays present Weston’s pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction and imagination rather than deconstruction and analysis.

Understanding Gregory Bateson

Essays and poems explore the contemporary relevance of Emerson’s work and thought.

Moral Habitat

A work of environmental ethics that looks at how “otherkind”—and humankind—contributes to our moral imagination.

Rachel Carson

Leading scholars explore the full range and current significance of Carson’s work.

The Intelligence of Flowers

By Maurice Maeterlinck
Translated by Philip Mosley
Introduction by Philip Mosley
Subjects: Literature

A new translation of one of Maeterlinck’s four great nature essays.

The Incarnality of Being

A groundbreaking exploration of Heidegger and embodiment, from which a radical ethical perspective emerges.

The Step Back

Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction.

With Respect for Nature

Explores how humans can take the lives of animals and plants while maintaining a proper respect both for ecosystems and for those who live in them.

Reinhabiting Reality

Argues that the environmental crisis is symptomatic of much deeper crises in modern civilization.

Petrified Intelligence

A critical introduction to Hegel's metaphysics and philosophy of nature.

Green Man, Earth Angel

Argues for a renewed vision of the cosmos based on the centrality of the human encounter with the sacred.

Sustainability and Spirituality

Argues that true sustainability must be based in spirituality and looks at religious communities dedicated to the environment.

First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

Schelling's first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature.

Eco-Phenomenology

Explores how continental philosophy can inform environmental ethics.

Land, Value, Community

Leading scholars critically assess the pioneering environmental philosophy of J. Baird Callicott.

Living and Value

Based on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism.

Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability

Argues that sustainability requires more than economic and technological efficiency.

Safeguarding Our Common Future

Utilizes Heidegger in rethinking common environmental paradigms.

Everybody's Story

This exhilarating tale of natural history illuminates the evolution of matter, life, and consciousness. In Everybody’s Story, Loyal Rue finds the means for global solidarity and cooperation in the shared story of humanity.

Nature

Provides a set of normative measure sto assess the value of nature and proposes the new discipline of foundational ecology as a response to environmental crisis.

Controversies in Environmental Policy

Controversies in Environmental Policy presents comprehensive analyses of the politics surrounding decision-making on such environmental issues as land use, toxic waste management, new federalism, and ...