From mastery to mystery : a phenomenological foundation for an environmental ethic / / Bryan E. Bannon

• Autore: Bannon Bryan E. <1979->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 113
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy of nature; Naturalness (Environmental sciences); Ecology - Philosophy; Phenomenology; Environmental ethics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Question of Nature; 1: The Promise of a Common World; 2: Science, Technology and the Closure of Nature; 3: The Opening of the Earth; 4: Merleau-Ponty and Nature as the Common World; Conclusion: Nature's Norms; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as "substance" that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists. Instead, this book reconsiders the basic goals of an environmental ethic by questioning the most basic presupposition that most environmentalists accept: that nature is in need of preservation. Beginning with Bruno Latour's idea that continuing to speak of nature in the way we popularly conceive of it
• Titolo autorizzato: From mastery to mystery
• ISBN: 0-8214-4469-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808493403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in Continental Thought