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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Civil Rights was a cause already won in the republic of ideas and in the courts (if not on Main Street in Memphis). The war in Vietnam would eventually end — one way or another, sooner or later. On the other hand, the "environmental ...
Civil Rights was a cause already won in the republic of ideas and in the courts (if not on Main Street in Memphis). The war in Vietnam would eventually end — one way or another, sooner or later. On the other hand, the "environmental ...
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... "The Land Ethic," may literally be counted on the fingers of one hand. Most of them are included in this volume. Writing in the mid-seventies, Peter Fritzell complained about this circumstance: Despite [Sand County's'] popularity ...
... "The Land Ethic," may literally be counted on the fingers of one hand. Most of them are included in this volume. Writing in the mid-seventies, Peter Fritzell complained about this circumstance: Despite [Sand County's'] popularity ...
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... hand, is much more than Aldo Leopold; it has achieved the independent life of all great art and philosophy. But to better understand a book, it is more than a little helpful to become acquainted, at the outset, with its author.
... hand, is much more than Aldo Leopold; it has achieved the independent life of all great art and philosophy. But to better understand a book, it is more than a little helpful to become acquainted, at the outset, with its author.
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The philosophically sensitive reader, on the other hand, may wish that Professor Nash had given more attention to the very great theoretical differences among the sentiency-based humane ethics of Darwin, Salt and Evans, the neo-Kantian ...
The philosophically sensitive reader, on the other hand, may wish that Professor Nash had given more attention to the very great theoretical differences among the sentiency-based humane ethics of Darwin, Salt and Evans, the neo-Kantian ...
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Duties, on the other hand, belong to us as moral agents and ecosystems are specifiable, albeit complex, structures.) Holmes Rolston, III, is uniquely qualified to explore the vanguard philosophical problems of duties to ecosystems.
Duties, on the other hand, belong to us as moral agents and ecosystems are specifiable, albeit complex, structures.) Holmes Rolston, III, is uniquely qualified to explore the vanguard philosophical problems of duties to ecosystems.
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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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