Key Thinkers on the Environment

Joy A. Palmer Cooper, David E. Cooper, Joy A. Palmer Cooper, David E. Cooper

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781134852901
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of diverse and stimulating figures from around the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are:

• philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza and Heidegger
• activists such as Chico Mendes and Wangari Maathai
• literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth
• major religious and spiritual figures such as Buddha and St Francis of Assissi
• eminent scientists such as Darwin, Lovelock and E.O. Wilson.

Lucid, scholarly and informative, the essays contained within this volume offer a fascinating overview of humankind's view and understanding of the natural world.

Contents

Alphabetical list of contents

Notes on contributors

Preface

CONFUCIUS, 551–479 BCE

YUE ZHUANG

BUDDHA, FIFTH CENTURY BCE

PURUSHOTTAMA BILIMORIA

ZHUANGZI, c.370–c.286 BCE

DAVID E. COOPER

ARISTOTLE, 384–322 BCE

DAVID E. COOPER

VIRGIL, 70–19 BCE

PHILIP R. HARDIE

SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, 1181/2–1226

ANDREW LINZEY AND ARA BARSAM

WANG YANG-MING, 1472–1528

T. YAMAUCHI

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 1533–1592

ANN MOSS

FRANCIS BACON, 1561–1626

PAUL S. MACDONALD

BENEDICT SPINOZA, 1632–1677

PAUL S. MACDONALD

BASHŌ, 1644–1694

DAVID J. MOSSLEY

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, 1712–1778

PAUL S. MACDONALD

IMMANUEL KANT, 1724–1804

EMILY BRADY

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, 1749–1832

COLIN RIORDAN

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, 1769–1859

NICOLAAS A. RUPKE

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770–1850

W. JOHN COLETTA

JOHN CLARE, 1793–1864

W. JOHN COLETTA

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803–1882

HOLMES ROLSTON III

CHARLES DARWIN, 1809–1882

ALAN HOLLAND

HENRY DAVID THOREAU, 1817–1862

LAURA DASSOW WALLS

KARL MARX, 1818–1883

RICHARD SMITH

JOHN RUSKIN, 1819–1900

RICHARD SMITH

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, 1822–1903

R. TERRY SCHNADELBACH

JOHN MUIR, 1838–1914

PETER BLAZE CORCORAN

ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, 1854–1930

PETER BLAZE CORCORAN

RABINDRANATH TAGORE, 1861–1941

KALYAN SEN GUPTA

BLACK ELK, 1862–1950

J. BAIRD CALLICOTT

JAKOB VON UEXKÜLL, 1864–1944

CARLO BRENTARI

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, 1867–1959

ROBERT McCARTER

MAHATMA GANDHI,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Alphabetical list of contents
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• CONFUCIUS, 551–479 BCE
• BUDDHA, FIFTH CENTURY BCE
• ZHUANGZI, c.370–c.286 BCE
• ARISTOTLE, 384–322 BCE
• VIRGIL, 70–19 BCE
• SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, 1181/2–1226
• WANG YANG-MING, 1472–1528
• MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 1533–1592
• FRANCIS BACON, 1561–1626
• BENEDICT SPINOZA, 1632–1677
• BASHŌ, 1644–1694
• JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, 1712–1778
• IMMANUEL KANT, 1724–1804
• JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, 1749–1832
• ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, 1769–1859
• WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770–1850
• JOHN CLARE, 1793–1864
• RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1803–1882
• CHARLES DARWIN, 1809–1882
• HENRY DAVID THOREAU, 1817–1862
• KARL MARX, 1818–1883
• JOHN RUSKIN, 1819–1900
• FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, 1822–1903
• JOHN MUIR, 1838–1914
• ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, 1854–1930
• RABINDRANATH TAGORE, 1861–1941
• BLACK ELK, 1862–1950
• JAKOB VON UEXKÜLL, 1864–1944
• FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, 1867–1959
• MAHATMA GANDHI, 1869–1948
• ALBERT SCHWEITZER, 1875–1965
• ALDO LEOPOLD, 1887–1948
• ROBINSON JEFFERS, 1887–1962
• MARTIN HEIDEGGER, 1889–1976
• EVE BALFOUR, 1898–1990
• RACHEL CARSON, 1907–1964
• LYNN WHITE, JR, 1907–1987
• MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY, 1908–1961
• E.F. SCHUMACHER, 1911–1977
• JOHN CAGE, 1912–1992
• ARNE NAESS, 1912–2009
• JOHN PASSMORE, 1914–2004
• JUDITH WRIGHT, 1915–2000
• BARRY COMMONER, 1917–2012
• JAMES LOVELOCK, 1919–
• MARY MIDGLEY, 1919–
• MURRAY BOOKCHIN, 1921–2006
• THICH NHAT HANH, 1926–
• EDWARD OSBORNE WILSON, 1929–
• YI-FU TUAN, 1930–
• PAUL EHRLICH, 1932–
• HOLMES ROLSTON III, 1932–
• SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR, 1933–
• WENDELL BERRY, 1934–
• JANE GOODALL, 1934–
• RUDOLF BAHRO, 1935–1997
• RODERICK NASH, 1939–
• VAL PLUMWOOD, 1939–2008
• PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW, 1940–
• WANGARI MAATHAI, 1940–2011
• J. BAIRD CALLICOTT, 1941–
• BOB HUNTER, 1941–2005
• SUSAN GRIFFIN, 1943–
• CHICO MENDES, 1944–1988
• BARRY LOPEZ, 1945–
• PETER SINGER, 1946–
• AL GORE, 1948–
• VANDANA SHIVA, 1952–
• BILL McKIBBEN, 1960–
• PAVAN SUKHDEV, 1960–