Old World and New World Perspectives in Environmental Philosophy Transatlantic Conversations /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Drenthen, Martin (Editor), Keulartz, Jozef (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 21
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Landscape ecology.; Nature conservation.; Human geography.; Nature Conservation.; Landscape Ecology.; Human Geography.

This is the first collection of essays in which European and American philosophers explicitly think out their respective contributions and identities as environmental thinkers in the analytic and continental traditions. The American/European, as well as Analytic/Continental collaboration here bears...

Table of Contents:

• Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Introduction; Martin Drenthen & Jozef Keulartz: Introduction
• Part One: Wilderness and Cultural Landscapes
• 2. Extracting Culture or Injecting Nature? Rewilding in Transatlantic Perspective; Marcus Hall
• 3. Restoration and Authenticity Revisited; Marion Hourdequin & David Havlick
• 4. Conceiving the Earth itself as our Garden; W.S.K. Cameron 5. Wilderness Recognized. Environments Free From Human Control; Robert Scotney
• Part Two: Restoration of Value and Meaning to Cultural Ecosystems
• 6. Cultural Landscapes, Ecological Restoration and the Intergenerational Narrative; Paul Knights
• 7. Enduring Nature; Glenn Deliège 8. Seeking Nature's Permission; Alan Holland
• 9. Green Managerialism And The Erosion Of Meaning; Simon P. James
• Part Three: Wolves and Wildness
• 10. The wolf is coming! Emplacing a predator that is not (yet) there; Martin Drenthen
• 11. Eating Wolves; Thomas Thorp
• 12. Blurring Boundaries: Freedom, Enclosure, and Death; Brian Seitz
• 13. The Hero, the Wolf, and the Hybrid. Overcoming the Overcoming of Uncultured Landscapes; Nathan Kowalsky
• Index.