Part One. Context: Environmentalism, Ecophilosophy, and Anthropocentrism

1. Moving Away from Human Centeredness: From Silent Spring to Deep Ecology

The Emergence of the Environmental Movement and Ecophilosophy
A Closer Look at the Issue of Anthropocentrism
Enter the Shallow/Deep Ecology Typology

Part Two. The Influence of Deep Ecology

2. Deep Ecology: A Focus within Ecophilosophy--and Beyond

The Influence of Deep Ecology upon Academic Ecophilosophy
The Influence beyond Academic Ecophilosophy

3. Why So Influential?

The Historical Answer
The Advocacy Answer and a Look behind the Scenes
The Substantive Answer

Part Three. The Label Deep Ecology: Its Meanings and Shortcomings

4.Arne Naess and the Meanings of Deep Ecology

Arne Naess
Naess's Formal Sense of Deep Ecology
Naess's Philosophical Sense of Deep Ecology

5. The Problem with the Label Deep Ecology

The Perceived Problem
The Failure of Deep Ecologists to Forestall the Perceived Problem
The "Fundamental" Problem
Farewell to Deep Ecology

Part Four. Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Drawing Out What is Tenable and Distinctive about the Deep Ecology Approach to Ecophilosophy

6. The Most Widely Recognized Approaches to Ecophilosophy

Instrumental Value Theory
Intrinsic Value Theory
Objections to Intrinsic Value Theory Approaches

7. Transpersonal Ecology as a Distinctive Approach to Ecophilosophy

Transpersonal Ecology and Transpersonal Psychology
Psychologizing Ecophilosophy
The Distinctiveness of the Transpersonal Ecology Approach to Ecophilosophy
Proof, Moral Injunctions, and Experiential Invitations

8. Transpersonal Ecology and the Varieties of Identification

Three Bases of Identification
Identification, Delusion, and Enlightenment

Appendix A: A Guide to the Primary Sources on Deep Ecology Published during the 1980s

Appendix B: The Emergence of Transpersonal Psychology

Notes
Further Reading
Index