LEADER 03408nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910823583803321 005 20240417032454.0 010 $a1-4384-3246-1 010 $a1-4416-7413-6 024 7 $a2027/heb30719 035 $a(CKB)2560000000067926 035 $a(dli)HEB30719 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000416645 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278855 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416645 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10422111 035 $a(PQKB)11574961 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407150 035 $a(OCoLC)794698971 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1708 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407150 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574011 035 $a(OCoLC)670430509 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012317768 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000067926 100 $a20100209d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aElemental philosophy $eearth, air, fire, and water as environmental ideas /$fDavid Macauley 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 433 p. ) 225 1 $aSUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4384-3245-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPhilosophy'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. 330 1 $a"Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the four elements through the history of ideas, Macauley generates a new vocabulary for and a fresh vision of the environment while engaging the elemental world directly with reflections on their various manifestations."--BOOK JACKET. 410 0$aSUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics. 606 $aFour elements (Philosophy) 606 $aPhilosophy 615 0$aFour elements (Philosophy) 615 0$aPhilosophy. 676 $a113 700 $aMacauley$b David$01005712 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823583803321 996 $aElemental philosophy$92312863 997 $aUNINA