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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Page viii
I asked myself how, as a philosopher, I could contribute to a rethinking of human nature and a reconstruction of human values to help bring them into line with the relatively new ideas about the nature of the environment emerging from ...
I asked myself how, as a philosopher, I could contribute to a rethinking of human nature and a reconstruction of human values to help bring them into line with the relatively new ideas about the nature of the environment emerging from ...
Page ix
Anything short of a 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.
Anything short of a 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.
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A Sand County Almanac is a contribution to a genre of belles let- tres usually called "nature literature." Tallmadge treats it, rather, as a specimen of "natural history" and, comparing Sand County to other classics of that genre, ...
A Sand County Almanac is a contribution to a genre of belles let- tres usually called "nature literature." Tallmadge treats it, rather, as a specimen of "natural history" and, comparing Sand County to other classics of that genre, ...
Page 9
Natural (as opposed to artistic or, more technically, ar- tifactual) aesthetics is a persistent concern of the author of A Sand County Almanac. The "esthetic harvest" which land "is capable, under science, of contributing to culture" is ...
Natural (as opposed to artistic or, more technically, ar- tifactual) aesthetics is a persistent concern of the author of A Sand County Almanac. The "esthetic harvest" which land "is capable, under science, of contributing to culture" is ...
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(I should note here that while Roderick Nash writes freely of the "rights of nature," the idea that nature as a whole has rights is, from a philosophical point of view, out of the question. Rights are claims expressed by, ...
(I should note here that while Roderick Nash writes freely of the "rights of nature," the idea that nature as a whole has rights is, from a philosophical point of view, out of the question. Rights are claims expressed by, ...
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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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