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"Front cover" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Foreword" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Prelude The Marginalist" -- "2 Prelude The Roots of a Philosophic Vocation—Prairie Ball Fields and Louisville Slugger Ideas" -- "3 Frog Pond Philosophy" -- "4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter" -- "5 Kansas on My Mind" -- "6 Scientists' Public Responsibilities" -- "7 Bottom Lines and the Earth's Future" -- "8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature" -- "9 Nature's Wildness" -- "10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers" -- "11 Big Little Snake" -- "12 Hunting Hennepin's Windblown Bottom" -- "13 Leopold's Wildness" -- "14 Leopold's Darwin" -- "15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us" -- "16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead" -- "17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies" -- "18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility" -- "19 The Philosopher's Poet" -- "20 Francis of Mepkin" -- "Editors' Afterword" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Bibliography" -- "References

Cover Leben zwischen Natur und Kultur E-BOOK -- Inhalt -- Prolog -- Das Rohe, das Gekochte und Rocky Balboas Eier als zeitweilige Referenz -- Technik- und Lebenswissenschaften: Grenzverschiebungen / Neuorientierungen -- Die kontrollierte Simulation der Unkontrollierbarkeit. Kontroll- und Wissensformen in der Technowissenschaftskultur -- Natur in der Krise. Die Technisierung der Lebenswelt und die Antiquiertheit biokonservativer Technikkritik -- Zur Funktion des 'nackten Lebens' als Außenseite des Sozialen für die Herstellung eines Akteurmodells für Cyborgs. Oder: Die kulturelle Leistung einer Naturalisierung sozialer Akteure als Menschen -- Technikwissenschaften: Nanotechnologie und synthetische Biologie -- Posthumanismus und Menschenwürde -- Natürlich Nano. Die argumentative Kraft von Naturkonzepten in Laiendiskussionen zu Nanotechnologie -- Die Nanotechnologie findet nicht statt -- Lebenswissenschaften: Medizin und Genetik -- Das Primat der 'Natur' im Gegensatz zur 'Künstlichkeit' in der Medizin der Aufklärung -- Kulturelle Monster beherrschen. Erkundungen zur Einführung prädiktiver Gentests -- Umweltkonzepte in der Epigenetik -- Autorinnen und Autoren.

"This book seeks to answer two fundamental questions: Why do we keep destroying nature when science makes it clear that in doing so we risk our own destruction? How can we stop doing so and regain the unity of humans and nature? First, the book shows that the inability of modern society to modify its relationship with nature has its roots in the collective fictions that have gradually shaped it since the Neolithic revolution. The collective fictions that underpin modernity include, in particular, the subject-object duality, the matter-mind duality, the primacy of rationality, and the superiority of the human species over all other living beings. These deeply ingrained fictions prevent us from acting in the word in agreement with the needs and knowledge that we have. Second, the book argues that humans have a nature that defines them as a unique species beyond their cultural differences, and this nature is not made only of flesh and bones, but also of a set of fundamental needs. Fundamental needs connect humans with nature spontaneously because they are the manifestation of life in them. They also make it possible to re-establish the unity of body and mind and of the different forms of knowledge and to give the economy a new direction, focused on the development of the human being and of its living environment. Challenging our collective fictions and reconnecting with our deepest nature is essential if we are to overcome the current ecological crisis and allow life on Earth to flourish"--

This bookexplores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. Emphasizing ecologically-inclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about it.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction: And Still the World Burns -- Chapter 2: An Historical Perspective: From End of Pipe to All of Pipe -- Chapter 3: Responsible Parties: Who Makes the Economy Green? -- Chapter 4: Common Consumer Concerns -- Chapter 5: Our Moral Relationship with Nature -- Chapter 6: Now All Is Beautiful -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Moral and Aesthetic Imperative -- Appendix: A Green Platform -- About the Author

How do ecological and evolutionary factors maintain the balance of diverse species (including humans) in an ecosystem? With examples ranging from Bhutan to California, Christopher Wills explains the processes. He also presents striking evidence that human populations have adapted genetically to environments.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Naturalism and the Invention of Identity -- Chapter 2. Between Two Truths -- Chapter 3. Natures of Naturalism -- Chapter 4. Raw Data -- Chapter 5. Methods for Multispecies Anthropology -- Chapter 6. A Theory of 'Animal Borders' -- Chapter 7. Delta Ontologies -- Chapter 8. The Ontological Turn -- Index.

This revised edition of Carolyn's Merchant's classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword.Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- WAYS IN TO THE TEXT -- Who Are Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees? -- What Does Our Ecological Footprint Say? -- Why Does Our Ecological Footprint Matter? -- SECTION 1: INFLUENCES -- Module 1: The Authors and the Historical Context -- Module 2: Academic Context -- Module 3: The Problem -- Module 4: The Authors' Contribution -- SECTION 2: IDEAS -- Module 5: Main Ideas -- Module 6: Secondary Ideas -- Module 7: Achievement -- Module 8: Place in the Authors' Works -- SECTION 3: IMPACT -- Module 9: The First Responses -- Module 10: The Evolving Debate -- Module 11: Impact and Influence Today -- Module 12: Where Next? -- Glossary of Terms -- People Mentioned in the Text -- Works Cited

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Concern about the environment is legitimate, but catastrophism transforms us into cowering children. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground. Bruckner locates the predecessors of today's ecological catastrophism in Catholicism's admonishment to give up joy in the present for the sake of eternal life and in Marxism's demand that individuals forsake personal needs for the sake of a brighter future. Modern society's susceptibility to this kind of catastrophism derives from what Bruckner calls the 'seductions of disaster', as exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse. Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems in a practical way. This sharp and contrarian essay on one of the great issues of our time will be widely read and discussed.

This book offers plausible explanations for people's puzzling unwillingness to address the human-nature interactions that have led us to the precipice that is climate change today. Humanity and nature are at war; the evidence is all around us: catastrophic weather events, rising sea levels, extinction of species, famine, wildfires, melting polar ice, millions of environmental refugees, and toxic pollution of air, water, and soil. The list goes on and on. What is causing this war, and how can it be stopped? Is this war an unintended consequence of economic and environmental imperatives pulling in opposite directions? This book takes the question--and its answer--to a deeper level. It argues that the root cause of our war on nature might be found in the time-honored, historically deep myths, narratives and stories we tell ourselves--and have been telling ourselves for centuries--about humanity's place in (or out of) the natural world.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett -- The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea / Rob Nixon -- Hubris -- Anthropocene in a Jar / Tomas Matza and Nicole Heller -- Concretes Speak: A Play in One Act / Rachel Harkness, Cristián Simonetti, and Judith Winter -- The Age of (a) Man / Joseph Masco -- The Manual Pesticide Spray Pump / Michelle Mart and Cameron Muir -- Hubris or Humility? Genealogies of the Anthropocene / Gregg Mitman -- Living And Dying -- Huia Echoes / Julianne Lutz Warren -- Snarge / Gary Kroll -- Marine Animal Satellite Tags / Nils Hanwahr -- Artificial Coral Reef / Josh Wodak -- Cryogenic Freezer Box / Elizabeth Hennessy -- Racism and the Anthropocene / Laura Pulido -- Sabotaging the Anthropocene -- or, In Praise of Mutiny / Marco Armiero -- Laboring -- On Possibility -- or, The Monkey Wrench / Daegan Miller -- The Germantown Calico Quilt / Bethany Wiggin -- Anthropocene Aesthetics / Robert S. Emmett -- Making -- The Mirror- Testing the Counter- Anthropocene / Sverker Sörlin -- Objects from Anna Schwartz's Cabinet of Curiosities / Judit Hersko -- Technofossil / Jared Farmer -- Davies Creek Road / Trisha Carroll and Mandy Martin -- Anthropocene Cabinets of Curiosity: Objects of Strange Change / Libby Robin -- Contributors