Return to Nature?: An Ecological Counterhistory - Hardcover

Dallmayr, Fred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813134331 ISBN 13: 9780813134338

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2011

Synopsis

Sustainability has become a compelling topic of debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era. By means of a philosophical counterhistory leading from Spinoza to Dewey and beyond, the book traces successive efforts to correct this tendency, offering a multifaceted history of philosophy with regard to our place in the natural world.

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Review:

"Dallmayr is one of the leading political thinkers in the world whose work brings together learning, intelligence, sensibility and moral passion." -- Edward Andrew, author of Patrons of Enlightenment

"The question of humanity's relation to the forces of nature is one that has preoccupied philosophers since the beginning of the discipline. Return to Nature? offers a combined historical review of the issues at stake and an imaginative perspective on how best to address them. This is precisely the kind of book that one has come to expect from Professor Dallmayr's seasoned scholarship." -- Calvin O. Schrag, George Ade Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritas, Purdue University

"With dazzling erudition and the philosophical profundity one has come to associate with him, Fred Dallmayr, through a cultural-historical detour, presents a philosophical anthropology that lays out the complex relationships between the human, the natural and the divine. This is an in-depth philosophical perspective on our ecological crisis, which has radical cultural and political implications. An invaluable addition to the literature about our environmental predicament." -- Joseph Prabhu, coeditor of Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges

"Dallmayr seeks a cohesive thread and a philosophical counterhistory, to interrupt the human pattern of marginalizing and abusing the natural world." -- ForeWord

"Provides a solid 'counterhistory' of modern philosophy, in which he presents somewhat neglected ideas from thinkers who offer different, more holistic visions of the human/nature relationship." -- Choice

About the Author:

Fred Dallmayr, Emeritus Packey J. Dee Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times, The Promise of Democracy: Political Agency and Transformation, and Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars. He lives in Notre Dame, Indiana.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0813134331
• ISBN 13: 9780813134338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228