The idea of wilderness : from prehistory to the age of ecology /

"How has the concept of wild nature changed over the millennia? And what have been the environmental consequences? In a wide-ranging work of intellectual history, Max Oelschlaeger presents a stimulating new examination of humankind's relationship with the natural world through the ages-fro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oelschlaeger, Max (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1991]
Temas:
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Wilderness areas.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Philosophy of nature.
Écologie humaine > Philosophie.
Réserves de la vie sauvage.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature.
Philosophie de la nature.
wilderness areas.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Human ecology > Philosophy
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Philosophy of nature
Wilderness areas
Natuur.
Mensen.
Human influence on nature.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The idea of wilderness : from paleolithic to neolithic culture
  • Ancient Mediterranean ideas of humankind and nature : the passage from myth to history
  • The alchemy of modernism : the transmutation of wilderness into nature
  • Wild nature : critical responses to modernism
  • Henry David Thoreau : philosopher of the wilderness
  • John Muir : wilderness sage
  • Aldo Leopold and the age of ecology
  • The idea of wilderness in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder
  • Contemporary wilderness philosophy : from resourcism to deep ecology
  • Cosmos and wilderness : a postmodern wilderness philosophy.

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