Max Oelschlaeger is Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, Denton.

"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

• Introduction Max OelschlaegerPart I. Language and Environmental Ethics 1.  Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative Jim Cheney2.  Nature and Silence Christopher Manes3.  Merleau-Ponty and the Voice of the Earth David Abram4.  Class, Race, and Gender Discourse in the Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology DebateAriel Salleh5.  Green Reason: Communicative Ethics for the Biosphere John S. DryzekPart II. Environmental Ethics, Postmodern Politics, and the Other 6.  Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism: Differences That Make a Difference Robert Frodeman7.  The Incarceration of Wildness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons Thomas H. Birch8.  The Call of the Wild: The Struggle Against Domination and the Technological Fix of Nature Eric Katz9.  Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural TheoryPeter Quigley10.  Traditional American Indian and Western European Attitudes Toward Nature: An Overview J. Baird CallicottPart III. Systematic Environmental Ethics Reconsidered 11.  Before Environmental Ethics Anthony Weston12.  Moral Pluralism and the Course of Environmental Ethics Christopher D. Stone13.  Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism Mick Smith14.  Quantum Theory, Intrinsic Value, and Panentheism Michael E. Zimmerman15.  Christian Existence in a World of Limits John Cobb, Jr.Index