Explains the role of language in causing and in resolving the ecocrisis and shows that ecologically adaptive behavior can be facilitated through language.
This book explains the role of language in causing and in resolving the ecocrisis, showing that ecologically adaptive behavior can be facilitated through language. The authors explore the discourses of deep ecology, ecofeminism, Judeo-Christianity, quantum theory, and Native American world views, all to the end of empowering ecosocial change.
"There is no other topic which reflects so penetratingly both the contradictions and the hopes that the contemporary situation holds for us, and these essays serve as a very clear mirror in this respect." -- Daniel Kealey, Towson State University
Max Oelschlaeger is Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, Denton.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Max Oelschlaeger
Part I. Language and Environmental Ethics
1. Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative
Jim Cheney
2. Nature and Silence
Christopher Manes
3. Merleau-Ponty and the Voice of the Earth
David Abram
4. Class, Race, and Gender Discourse in the
Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology Debate
Ariel Salleh
5. Green Reason: Communicative Ethics for the Biosphere
John S. Dryzek
Part II. Environmental Ethics, Postmodern Politics, and the Other
6. Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism: Differences That Make a Difference
Robert Frodeman
7. The Incarceration of Wildness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons
Thomas H. Birch
8. The Call of the Wild: The Struggle Against Domination and the Technological Fix of Nature
Eric Katz
9. Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural Theory
Peter Quigley
10. Traditional American Indian and Western European Attitudes Toward Nature: An Overview
J. Baird Callicott
Part III. Systematic Environmental Ethics Reconsidered
11. Before Environmental Ethics
Anthony Weston
12. Moral Pluralism and the Course of Environmental Ethics
Christopher D. Stone
13. Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism
Mick Smith
14. Quantum Theory, Intrinsic Value, and Panentheism
