Rethinking Nature

Bruce V. Foltz is Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. He has published numerous articles on environmental philosophy and the philosophy of technology.Robert Frodeman is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He is also Director of the New Directions Initiative and the Global Climate Change and Society program. His works include Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and Earth Sciences and other essays in environmental thought.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Nature of Environmental PhilosophyBruce V. Foltz and Robert FrodemanPart 1. The Phenomenology of Nature1. The Uncanny Goodness of Being Edible to BearsJames Hatley2. Trees and Truth (or, Why We Are Really All Druids)David Wood3. Boundary Projects versus Border PatrolIrene J. Klaver4. Children and the Ethics of PlaceIngrid Leman Stefanovic5. ReciprocityDavid AbramPart 2. Nature and the Philosophical Tradition6. Eco-logic: An Erotic of NatureTrish Glazebrook7. Vegetable Genius: Plant Metamorphosis as a Figure for Thinking and Relating to the Natural World in Post-Kantian German ThoughtElaine P. Miller8. The Elemental EarthJohn SallisPart 3. Nature and Natural Science9. Philosophy in the FieldRobert Frodeman10. Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the Human PredicamentRobert Kirkman11. Deleuze and Guattari's Return to Science as a Basis for Environmental PhilosophyRobert MugerauerPart 4. Approaches to Nature12. What Can Continental Philosophy Contribute to Environmentalism?Michael E. Zimmerman13. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Environmental Ethics: A Difficult Relationship?Diane Michelfelder14. Biodiversity, Exuberance, and Abundance: Cherishing the Body of the EarthStephen David Ross15. Mapping the Earth in Works of ArtEdward S. CaseyPart 5. On the Nature of Nature16. The Music of SpaceAlphonso Lingis17. A Sand County Almanac: Through Anthropogenic to Ecogenic ThinkingKenneth Maly18. Nature and Nurture: A Non-disjunctive ApproachBruce Wilshire, with Ron Cooper19. Nature and Freedom: An Introduction to the Environmental Thought of Bernard CharbonneauDaniel Cérézuelle20. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of GivennessBruce V. FoltzContributorsIndex