Interpreting Nature - (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology) by Brian Treanor & Martin Drenthen & David Utsler (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This collection of essays examines the various intersections between philosophical hermeneutics and environmental philosophy. Adopting a broad and inclusive understanding of our relation with the environment, it investigates a number of important topics for contemporary environmental thought, including the self, history, ethics, culture, and narrative.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>... <i>Interpreting Nature</i> is engaging throughout and contributes to an important growth in environmental philosophy.-- "Environmental Values"<br><br><i>Interpreting Nature </i>is an excellent collection of essays. This collection is a very welcome addition to the literature and helps to move forward philosophical reflection on the idea of 'nature' and charts new and important ways to think about the task of an environmental ethics.<b>---Charles Brown, Emporia State University, <i></i></b><br><br>This is a superb book, written with clarity, precision, and deep feeling for a better understanding of differing approaches to interpreting the wider natural world.<b>---Mark Wallace, Swarthmore College, <i></i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Brian Treanor (Author) </b><br> Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of <i>Aspects of Alterity</i> (Fordham, 2006) and <i>Emplotting Virtue</i> (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of<i> A Passion for the Possible</i> (Fordham University Press, 2010), <i>Interpreting Nature </i>(Fordham University Press, 2013), and <i>Being-in-Creation</i> (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an "earthy" hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy. <p/><b>Martin Drenthen (Author) </b><br> Martin Drenthen is associate professor of philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). He is the author of Old World and New World Pespective in Environmental Philosophy. Together with Jozef Keulartz and Jim Proctor, he coedited New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity. In English and Dutch publications, he has written about the significance of Nietzsche's critique of morality for environmental ethics, the concept of wildness in debates on ecological restoration, and ethics of place. His most recent research focuses on the relationship between landscapes, cultures of place, and moral identity. <p/><b>David Utsler (Author) </b><br> David Utsler is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies. His current areas of research focus on hermeneutics, critical theory, and their application to environmental philosophy. He has published essays in environmental hermeneutics and presented several conference papers on environmental hermeneutics and environmental justice. He is currently working on a manuscript (along with Robert Melchior Figueroa of UNT) on the application of hermeneutics to environmental justice studies and activism. <p/>
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