Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysThe first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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... Susan Flader has written a book-length monograph, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests, and several shorter articles about Leopold's life and thought.
... Susan Flader has written a book-length monograph, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests, and several shorter articles about Leopold's life and thought.
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Leopold's evolutionary ecological "land ethic" did not occur in an intellectual vacuum; nor was it without precedent. Nash, in "Aldo Leopold's Intellectual Heritage" puts the idea in its place — in the history of ideas, as Flader places ...
Leopold's evolutionary ecological "land ethic" did not occur in an intellectual vacuum; nor was it without precedent. Nash, in "Aldo Leopold's Intellectual Heritage" puts the idea in its place — in the history of ideas, as Flader places ...
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... the sentiency-based humane ethics of Darwin, Salt and Evans, the neo-Kantian "reverence-for-life" ethic of Albert Schweitzer (whom he also mentions as an antecedent), and the evolutionary- ecological land ethic of Aldo Leopold.
... the sentiency-based humane ethics of Darwin, Salt and Evans, the neo-Kantian "reverence-for-life" ethic of Albert Schweitzer (whom he also mentions as an antecedent), and the evolutionary- ecological land ethic of Aldo Leopold.
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Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), 192; Susan Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (Columbia: ...
Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), 192; Susan Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (Columbia: ...
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2 * Aldo Leopold's Sand Country susan flader We are interested in the convergence of a person and a place — a person who has come to be regarded as a prophet in the evolution of a new relationship between man and land, ...
2 * Aldo Leopold's Sand Country susan flader We are interested in the convergence of a person and a place — a person who has come to be regarded as a prophet in the evolution of a new relationship between man and land, ...
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Contents
| 3 | |
| 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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