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Old World and New World Perspectives in Environmental Philosophy

Transatlantic Conversations

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Martin Drenthen

    1. Institute for Science, Innovation & Soci, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  2. Jozef Keulartz

    1. Institute for Science, Innovation & Soci, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  • The first book that combines American and European perspectives on environmental philosophy
  • The only book dealing with transatlantic conversations about ecological restoration and conservation
  • Brings together environmental philosophers from the analytic and continental traditions
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Martin Drenthen, Jozef Keulartz
    Pages 1-14

  3. Wilderness and Cultural Landscapes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Extracting Culture or Injecting Nature? Rewilding in Transatlantic Perspective

      • Marcus Hall
      Pages 17-35

    3. Restoration and Authenticity Revisited

      • Marion Hourdequin, David G. Havlick
      Pages 37-51

    4. Conceiving the Earth Itself as Our Garden

      • W. S. K. Cameron
      Pages 53-71

    5. Wilderness Recognized: Environments Free from Human Control

      • Robert Scotney
      Pages 73-90

  4. Restoration of Value and Meaning to Cultural Ecosystems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Cultural Landscapes, Ecological Restoration and the Intergenerational Narrative

      • Paul Knights
      Pages 93-108

    3. Enduring Nature

      • Glenn Deliège
      Pages 109-124

    4. Seeking Nature’s Permission

      • Alan Holland
      Pages 125-137

    5. Green Managerialism and the Erosion of Meaning

      • Simon P. James
      Pages 139-150

  5. Wolves and Wildness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. The Wolf Is Coming! Emplacing a Predator That Is Not (Yet) There

      • Martin Drenthen
      Pages 153-174

    3. Eating Wolves

      • Thomas Thorp
      Pages 175-197

    4. Blurring Boundaries: Freedom, Enclosure, and Death

      • Brian Seitz
      Pages 199-207

    5. The Hero, the Wolf, and the Hybrid: Overcoming the Overcoming of Uncultured Landscapes

      • Nathan Kowalsky
      Pages 209-227

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 229-233
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About this book

This is the first collection of essays in which European and American philosophers explicitly think out their respective contributions and identities as environmental thinkers in the analytic and continental traditions. The American/European, as well as Analytic/Continental collaboration here bears fruit helpful for further theorizing and research. The essays group around three well-defined areas of questioning all focusing on the amelioration/management of environmentally, historically and traditionally diminished landscapes. The first part deals with differences between New World and the Old World perspectives on nature and landscape restoration in general, the second focuses on the meaning of ecological restoration of cultural landscapes, and the third on the meaning of the wolf and of wildness. It does so in a way that the strengths of each philosophical school—continental and analytic—comes to the fore in order to supplement the other’s approach. This text is open to educated readers across all disciplines, particularly those interested in restoration/adaptation ecology, the cultural construction of place and landscape, the ongoing conversation about wilderness, the challenges posed to global environmental change. The text may also be a gold mine for doctoral students looking for dissertation projects in environmental philosophy that are inclusive of continental and analytic traditions. This text is rich in innovative approaches to the questions they raise that are reasonably well thought out. The fact that the essays in each section really do resonate with one another directly is also intellectually exciting and very helpful in working out the full dimensions of each question raised in the volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Science, Innovation & Soci, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Martin Drenthen, Jozef Keulartz

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