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Page vii
Most of all, I hope that this volume will press a little further into the 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 ...
Most of all, I hope that this volume will press a little further into the 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 ...
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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The third section "wrestle[s] with the 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 ...
The third section "wrestle[s] with the 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 ...
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... Almanac there runs a countercurrent, a riptide, which generates, in part, the artistry of the book — in particular, its frequent irony and something, at the philosophical level, very like suspense or tension in a good mystery story.
... Almanac there runs a countercurrent, a riptide, which generates, in part, the artistry of the book — in particular, its frequent irony and something, at the philosophical level, very like suspense or tension in a good mystery story.
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Whether Leopold read David Hume, Adam Smith, and the other 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; ...
Whether Leopold read David Hume, Adam Smith, and the other 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; ...
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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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