Uncommon ground : rethinking the human place in nature /
Uncommon ground : rethinking the human place in nature /
William Cronon, editor.
- 561 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-476)
Introduction: in search of nature / The trouble with wilderness; or, Getting back to the wrong nature / Constructing nature : the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted / Amazonia as Edenic narrative / Reinventing Eden: western culture as a recovery narrative / "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?": work and nature / Looking for nature at the mall: a field guide to the Nature Company / "Touch the magic" / Ecological fragmentation in the fifties / On the search for a root cause: essentialist tendencies in environmental discourse / Whose nature? The contested moral terrain of ancient forests / Nature as community: the convergence of environment and social justice / Universal donors in a vampire culture: it's all in the family: biological kinship categories in the twentieth-century United States / Reinventing common nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore--a meandering tale of a double nature / Simulated nature and natural simulations: rethinking the relation between the beholder and the world / Toward a philosophy of nature / William Cronon -- William Cronon -- Anne Whiston Spirn -- Candace Slater -- Carolyn Merchant -- Richard White -- Jennifer Price -- Susan G. Davis -- Michael G. Barbour -- Jeffrey C. Ellis -- James D. Proctor -- Giovanna Di Chiro -- Donna J. Haraway -- Kenneth R. Olwig -- N. Katherine Hayles -- Robert P. Harrison.
0393315118
Environmentalism
Environmental policy--United States
Philosophy of nature
333.72
Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-476)
Introduction: in search of nature / The trouble with wilderness; or, Getting back to the wrong nature / Constructing nature : the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted / Amazonia as Edenic narrative / Reinventing Eden: western culture as a recovery narrative / "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?": work and nature / Looking for nature at the mall: a field guide to the Nature Company / "Touch the magic" / Ecological fragmentation in the fifties / On the search for a root cause: essentialist tendencies in environmental discourse / Whose nature? The contested moral terrain of ancient forests / Nature as community: the convergence of environment and social justice / Universal donors in a vampire culture: it's all in the family: biological kinship categories in the twentieth-century United States / Reinventing common nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore--a meandering tale of a double nature / Simulated nature and natural simulations: rethinking the relation between the beholder and the world / Toward a philosophy of nature / William Cronon -- William Cronon -- Anne Whiston Spirn -- Candace Slater -- Carolyn Merchant -- Richard White -- Jennifer Price -- Susan G. Davis -- Michael G. Barbour -- Jeffrey C. Ellis -- James D. Proctor -- Giovanna Di Chiro -- Donna J. Haraway -- Kenneth R. Olwig -- N. Katherine Hayles -- Robert P. Harrison.
0393315118
Environmentalism
Environmental policy--United States
Philosophy of nature
333.72