Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1987 M09 1 - 320 pages The first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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Page vii
... environmental consciousness — and conscience. For all its charm and apparent simplicity, A Sand County Almanac is as incisive and complex as it is transformative. This volume brings together twelve interpretive and critical essays by ...
... environmental consciousness — and conscience. For all its charm and apparent simplicity, A Sand County Almanac is as incisive and complex as it is transformative. This volume brings together twelve interpretive and critical essays by ...
Page viii
... environment emerging from ecology and the New Physics. Then, perhaps, we could gradually begin to adjust ourselves to the ecological exigencies and environmental limitations which were beginning to make themselves palpably viii Preface.
... environment emerging from ecology and the New Physics. Then, perhaps, we could gradually begin to adjust ourselves to the ecological exigencies and environmental limitations which were beginning to make themselves palpably viii Preface.
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... environmental ethics during the summer of 1971, but, while the other texts shuffled in and out, A Sand County Almanac remains at the core of my curriculum sixteen years later. By a sort of spontaneous generation, other courses in ...
... environmental ethics during the summer of 1971, but, while the other texts shuffled in and out, A Sand County Almanac remains at the core of my curriculum sixteen years later. By a sort of spontaneous generation, other courses in ...
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... environment and the American environmental state of mind nearly four decades after A Sand County Almanac. Stegner writes a personalized summary of Leopold's philosophy, emphasizing that it is contrary to institutionalized American ...
... environment and the American environmental state of mind nearly four decades after A Sand County Almanac. Stegner writes a personalized summary of Leopold's philosophy, emphasizing that it is contrary to institutionalized American ...
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... environmental ethics as an academic philosophical discipline, he is intimately conversant with the relevant ecological literature, as reading his essay will confirm from the very first page. What may not be so evident from a reading of ...
... environmental ethics as an academic philosophical discipline, he is intimately conversant with the relevant ecological literature, as reading his essay will confirm from the very first page. What may not be so evident from a reading of ...
Contents
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| 15 | |
II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Author | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0299112330, 9780299112332 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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