TY  - GEN
T1  - Return to nature? : an ecological counterhistory
A1  - Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928-
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn755586900
AB  - Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era. Although nature was regarded as a matrix that encompassed all beings in premodern and classical thought, modern Western thinkers tend to disregard this original unity, essentially exiling nature from human life. By means of a philosophical counterhistory leading from Spinoza to Dewey and beyond, the book traces successive efforts to correct this tendency. Grounding his writing in a holistic relationism that reconnects humanity with ecology, Dallmayr pleads for the reintroduction of nature into contemporary philosophical discussion and sociopolitical practice. Return to Nature? unites learning, intelligence, sensibility, and moral passion to offer a multifaceted history of philosophy with regard to our place in the natural world. Dallmayr's visionary writings provide an informed foundation for environmental policy and represent an impassioned call to reclaim nature in our everyday lives.
OP  - 213
CN  - BD581 .D243 2011eb
SN  - 9780813134345
SN  - 081313434X
SN  - 9780813140483
SN  - 081314048X
SN  - 1283246996
SN  - 9781283246996
SN  - 9780813134338
SN  - 0813134331
KW  - Philosophy of nature.
KW  - Philosophie de la nature.
KW  - SCIENCE : Cosmology.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : General.
KW  - Philosophy of nature
ER  -