Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Environmental Hermeneutics
- Part I: Interpretation and the Task of Thinking Environmentally
- 1 Environmental Hermeneutics Deep in the Forest
- 2 Morrow’s Ants: E. O. Wilson and Gadamer’s Critique of (Natural) Historicism
- 3 Layering: Body, Building, Biography
- 4 Might Nature Be Interpreted as a “Saturated Phenomenon”?
- 5 Must Environmental Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel
- Part II: Situating the Self
- 6 Environmental Hermeneutics and Environmental/Eco-Psychology: Explorations in Environmental Identity
- 7 Environmental Hermeneutics with and for Others: Ricoeur’s Ethics and the Ecological Self
- 8 Bodily Moods and Unhomely Environments: The Hermeneutics of Agoraphobia and the Spirit of Place
- Part III: Narrativity and Image
- 9 Narrative and Nature: Appreciating and Understanding the Nonhuman World
- 10 The Question Concerning Nature
- 11 New Nature Narratives: Landscape Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics
- Part IV: Environments, Place, and the Experience of Time
- 12 Memory, Imagination, and the Hermeneutics of Place
- 13 The Betweenness of Monuments
- 14 My Place in the Sun
- 15 How Hermeneutics Might Save the Life of (Environmental) Ethics
- Notes
- A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics
- List of Contributors
- Index
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