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Author | : Simone Schröder |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2019-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 900438927X |
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In The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations Simone Schröder offers the first extended account of the nature essay. Her ecocritical readings of essays engage with the genre's central epistemological and poetic paradigms, revealing its unique capacity to serve as a platform for environmental discourse.
Author | : Scott Freeman |
Publisher | : Timber Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2018-01-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1604697946 |
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When the Freeman family decided to transform a drainage ditch into a stream that could again nurture salmon, they knew the task would be formidable but the rewards plentiful. Saving Tarboo Creek artfully blends the story of the family's efforts with profound lessons about how we can live more constructive, fulfilling, and natural lives by engaging with the land rather than exploiting it. Based on the land ethic passionately promoted by Susan Leopold Freeman's grandfather, Aldo Leopold, in his influential book A Sand County Almanac, this timely tribute to our natural environment and the urgent need to protect it is destined to be another inspiring classic.
Author | : David Gessner |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781584654643 |
Download Sick of Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Essays that trace the making of a reluctant nature writer.
Author | : Morris R. Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780841419964 |
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Author | : Francis Hutcheson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1728 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Matthew Boyle |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674241045 |
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Against the dominant view of reductive naturalism, John McDowell argues that human life should be seen as transformed by reason so that human minds, while not supernatural, are sui generis. This collection assembles eleven critical essays that highlight the enduring significance and wide ramifications of McDowell’s unorthodox position.
Author | : Edward Craig |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1991-01-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191519642 |
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The standard philosophical project of analysing the concept of knowledge has radical defects in its arbitrary restriction of the subject matter, and its risky theoretical presuppositions. Edward Craig suggests a more illuminating approach, akin to the `state of nature' method found in political theory, which builds up the concept from a hypothesis about the social function of knowledge and the needs it fulfils. Light is thrown on much that philosophers have written about knowledge, about its analysis and the obstacles to its analysis (such as the counter-examples of Edmund Gettier), and on the debate over scepticism. It becomes apparent why many languages not only have such constructions as `knows whether' and `knows that', but also have equivalents of `knows how to' and `know' followed by a direct object. Thus the inquiry is both broadened in scope and made theoretically less fragile.
Author | : Pierre Hadot |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780674023161 |
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Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, "Nature loves to hide" has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being unveils as it veils itself. Meanwhile the pronouncement has been used to explain everything from the opacity of the natural world to our modern angst. From these kaleidoscopic exegeses and usages emerge two contradictory approaches to nature: the Promethean, or experimental-questing, approach, which embraces technology as a means of tearing the veil from Nature and revealing her secrets; and the Orphic, or contemplative-poetic, approach, according to which such a denuding of Nature is a grave trespass. In place of these two attitudes Hadot proposes one suggested by the Romantic vision of Rousseau, Goethe, and Schelling, who saw in the veiled Isis an allegorical expression of the sublime. "Nature is art and art is nature," Hadot writes, inviting us to embrace Isis and all she represents: art makes us intensely aware of how completely we ourselves are not merely surrounded by nature but also part of nature.
Author | : Helen Macdonald |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0802146694 |
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The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
Author | : McGrath Sean J. McGrath |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1474449298 |
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Moving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering. Engaging with contemporary thinkers in eco-criticism, including Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour and Slavoj Zizek, McGrath argues for a distinctive role for the human being in the universe: the human being is nature come to full consciousness. McGrath's compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism is founded on a reverence for nature, a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a naturalism that is not at the expense of the human.