From mastery to mystery

From mastery to mystery: a phenomenological foundation for an environmental ethic

by Bannon, Bryan E.

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From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as?"substance" that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists. Instead, this book reconsiders the basic goals of an environmental ethic by questioning the most basic presupposition that most environmentalists accept: that nature is in need of preservation. Beginning w…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :From mastery to mystery : a phenomenological foundation for an environmental ethic / Bryan E. Bannon.

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From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as?"substance" that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists. Instead, this book reconsiders the basic goals of an environmental ethic by questioning the most basic presupposition that most environmentalists accept: that nature is in need of preservation. Beginning with Bruno Latour's idea that continuing to speak of nature in the way we popularly conceive of it.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ohio University Press
  • Place of Publication:Athens, Ohio
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780821444696, 0821444697
  • oclc:ocn869811914
  • LC Classification:BD581
  • Dewey Decimal:113

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Question of Nature; 1: The Promise of a Common World; 2: Science, Technology and the Closure of Nature; 3: The Opening of the Earth; 4: Merleau-Ponty and Nature as the Common World; Conclusion: Nature's Norms; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Subjects

Écologie -- Philosophie Ecology -- Philosophy Environmental ethics Éthique de l'environnement Naturalité (Sciences de l'environnement) Naturalness (Environmental sciences) Naturphilosophie Phänomenologie Phénoménologie phenomenology Philosophie de la nature Philosophy (General) Philosophy of nature SCIENCE -- Cosmology Umweltethik Wilderness wilderness

Writers

Bannon, Bryan E.

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