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 stu- dent in my course History of Ancient Greek Philosophy , sug- gested I read A Sand ...
... philosophical terra incognita toward which Leopold's legacy so alluringly draws us . It was in the spring of 1971 that Robert Ramlow , formerly a stu- dent in my course History of Ancient Greek Philosophy , sug- gested I read A Sand ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 manage- ment , on American environmental consciousness more gener- ally ...
... 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 manage- ment , on American environmental consciousness more gener- ally ...
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 be- come part of our intellectual vocabulary ; and broadly educated people , like Leopold , pick them up , tune them in , in any number of indirect ways . The fourth section of this book , ' The Impact , " is intended to ...
... philosophers be- come part of our intellectual vocabulary ; and broadly educated people , like Leopold , pick them up , tune them in , in any number of indirect ways . The fourth section of this book , ' The Impact , " is intended to ...
Contents
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II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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