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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But his ideas were so compacdy expressed that their full implications were not evident. I tried to unpack and air out Leopold's fertile thought in the rapidly expanding debate (most of which was carried on in the journal Environmental ...
But his ideas were so compacdy expressed that their full implications were not evident. I tried to unpack and air out Leopold's fertile thought in the rapidly expanding debate (most of which was carried on in the journal Environmental ...
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The first section provides an account of the author's life, his geographical and cultural milieu, and finally his place in a history of ideas. The second section focuses on the Almanac as a whole — its genesis, evolution, elements, ...
The first section provides an account of the author's life, his geographical and cultural milieu, and finally his place in a history of ideas. The second section focuses on the Almanac as a whole — its genesis, evolution, elements, ...
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Nash, in "Aldo Leopold's Intellectual Heritage" puts the idea in its place — in the history of ideas, as Flader places the person in the geocultural history of the land. Nash argues, in sum and substance, that Leopold's land ethic is ...
Nash, in "Aldo Leopold's Intellectual Heritage" puts the idea in its place — in the history of ideas, as Flader places the person in the geocultural history of the land. Nash argues, in sum and substance, that Leopold's land ethic is ...
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My analysis undertakes to sound the body of ideas lying beneath. In "The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic" I am as little concerned with material historical influences as with how Leopold synthesized earlier papers to produce ...
My analysis undertakes to sound the body of ideas lying beneath. In "The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic" I am as little concerned with material historical influences as with how Leopold synthesized earlier papers to produce ...
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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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