Elemental Philosophy : Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas /

"Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with thei...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Macauley, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Four elements (Philosophy)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophy's forgotten four
  • The topology of the elemental environment
  • The flowering of ecological roots : Empedocles's elemental thought
  • Plato's chora-graphy of earth, air, fire, and water
  • The place of the elements of place : Aristotle's natural household
  • The economy and ecology of the Aristotelian elements
  • Domestication of the elements
  • In touch with the sensuous world : the reclamation of the elemental in continental philosophy
  • Revaluing earth, air, fire, and water : elemental beauty, ecological duty, and environmental policy.

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