Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)

Treanor, Brian, Drenthen, Martin, Utsler, David

ISBN 10: 0823254259 / ISBN 13: 9780823254255

Published by Fordham University Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics (Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823254259
• ISBN 13: 9780823254255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), Interpreting Nature (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an “earthy” hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy.