New Book: Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, Fordham University Press 2013

Recently published:

Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics  

Edited by Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler.   

Fordham University Press, 2013

Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns "wilderness" and "nature" among them are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity tom, history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
   Introduction: Environmental Hermeneutics
       David Utsler, Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and Brian Treanor

Part I: Interpretation and the Task of Thinking Environmentally
   1. Hermeneutics Deep in the Woods
       John van Buren
    2. Morrow's Ants: E. O. Wilson and Gadamer's Critique of (Natural) Historicism

       Mick Smith
    3. Layering: Body, Building, Biography
        Robert Mugerauer 
   4. Might Nature Be Interpreted as a "Saturated Phenomenon"?
        Christina M. Gschwandtner
    5. Must Environmental Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel
        W. S. K. Cameron

Part II: Situating the Self 
   6. Environmental Hermeneutics and Environmental/Eco-Psychology: Explorations in Environmental Identity
        David Utsler 
   7. Environmental Hermeneutics With and For Others: Ricoeur's Ethics and the Ecological Self 
       Nathan Bell 
   8. Bodily Moods and Unhomely Environments: The Hermeneutics of Agoraphobia and the Spirit of Place
        Dylan Trigg

Part III: Narrativity and Image 
   9. Narrative and Nature: Appreciating and Understanding the Nonhuman World
        Brian Treanor 
  10. The Question Concerning Nature 
       Sean McGrath
   11. New Nature Narratives: Landscape Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics
        Martin Drenthen

Part IV: Environments, Place, and the Experience of Time
 12. Memory, Imagination, and the Hermeneutics of Place
        Forrest Clingerman
 13. The Betweenness of Monuments 
       Janet Donohoe
 14. My Place in the Sun 
       David Wood
 15. How Hermeneutics Might Save the Life of (Environmental) Ethics
        Paul Van Tongeren and Paulien Snellen

Notes
A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics
List of Contributors
Index

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Reviews:

"Interpreting Nature is an excellent collection of essays. This collection is a very welcome addition to the literature and helps to move forward philosophical reflection on the idea of 'nature' and charts new and important ways to think about the task of an environmental ethics." - Charles Brown, Emporia State University
 
"This is a superb book, written with clarity, precision, and deep feeling for a better understanding of differing approaches to interpreting the wider natural world." - Mark Wallace, Swarthmore College


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