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
... philosophical terra incognita toward which Leopold's legacy so alluringly draws us. It was in the spring of 1971 that Robert Ramlow, formerly a student in my course History of Ancient Greek Philosophy, suggested I read A Sand County ...
... philosophical terra incognita toward which Leopold's legacy so alluringly draws us. It was in the spring of 1971 that Robert Ramlow, formerly a student in my course History of Ancient Greek Philosophy, suggested I read A Sand County ...
Page ix
... philosophical overhaul of prevailing attitudes and values toward nature seemed to me then, as now, to treat the symptoms of the maladaptation of global civilization to the planet — not the disease itself. I found other more-or-less ...
... philosophical overhaul of prevailing attitudes and values toward nature seemed to me then, as now, to treat the symptoms of the maladaptation of global civilization to the planet — not the disease itself. I found other more-or-less ...
Page 4
... philosophical questions of Part III" of the Almanac (viii). The fourth is a denouement; it considers the impact of A Sand County Almanac on public resource management, on American environmental consciousness more generally, and as ...
... philosophical questions of Part III" of the Almanac (viii). The fourth is a denouement; it considers the impact of A Sand County Almanac on public resource management, on American environmental consciousness more generally, and as ...
Page 8
... philosophical level, very like suspense or tension in a good mystery story. Fritzell does not deliberately employ a deconstructionist method — a recent rage in literary criticism — nor is he happy with my association of his essay with ...
... philosophical level, very like suspense or tension in a good mystery story. Fritzell does not deliberately employ a deconstructionist method — a recent rage in literary criticism — nor is he happy with my association of his essay with ...
Page 10
... philosophers whose ideas in one form or another I find in "The Land Ethic" is an open question. The ideas of great philosophers become part of our intellectual vocabulary; and broadly educated people, like Leopold, pick them up, tune ...
... philosophers whose ideas in one form or another I find in "The Land Ethic" is an open question. The ideas of great philosophers become part of our intellectual vocabulary; and broadly educated people, like Leopold, pick them up, tune ...
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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