LEADER 02756nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910807891503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8017-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000774915 035 $a(EBL)454520 035 $a(OCoLC)300571848 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000274352 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11240537 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000274352 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10323548 035 $a(PQKB)11763260 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8695 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454520 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10309031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454520 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000774915 100 $a20070220d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe world in which we occur $eJohn Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century /$fNeil W. Browne 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1581-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-217) and index. 327 $aAn arc of discovery: John Muir's my first summer in the Sierra -- The form of the new: pragmatist ecology and Sea of Cortez -- Rachel Carson's Marginal world: pragmatist ecology, aesthetics, and ethics -- The coldest scholar on Earth: silence and work in John Haines's The stars, the snow, the fire -- Northern imagination, wonder, politics, and pragmatist ecology in Barry Lopez's Arctic dreams. 330 $aAmerican philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be one with the natural world. In his writings, particularly Art as Experience (1934), Dewey insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. Dewey's conception of environment includes both the natural and the man-made. The World in Which We Occur highlights this notion in order to define "pragmatist ecology," a practice rooted in the interface of the cultural and the natural. Neil Browne finds this to be a significant feature of some of the most important ecological writing of the last centu 517 3 $aJohn Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century 606 $aHuman ecology in literature 606 $aHuman ecology$xPhilosophy 615 0$aHuman ecology in literature. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xPhilosophy. 676 $a810.9/36 700 $aBrowne$b Neil W$01658633 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807891503321 996 $aThe world in which we occur$94012777 997 $aUNINA