Interpreting Nature : The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics
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| Title: | Interpreting Nature : The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, David Utsler, Forrest Clingerman |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Hermeneutics, Human ecology--Philosophy, Interpretation (Philosophy) |
| Categories: | SCIENCE / Environmental Science, NATURE / Ecology, PHILOSOPHY / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780823254255 9780823254262 9780823254286 9780823254279 |
