Interpreting Nature

The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, David Utsler, Forrest Clingerman

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780823254262
  9780823254255
• eBook ISBN:
  9780823254279
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—"wilderness" and "nature" among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Half title
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents 
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Environmental Hermeneutics
• Part I: Interpretation and the Task of Thinking Environmentally
• Part II: Situating the Self
• Part III: Narrativity and Image
• Part IV: Environments, Place, and the Experience of Time
• Notes
• A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Series List