"Individual or Community? Two Approaches to Ecophilosophy in Practice"
Should environmental philosophers—or practical conservationists—focus their attentions on particular living creatures, or on the community of which they, and we, are part?
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"Burrows and Burrs: A Perceptual History"
Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.
Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought
Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought provides an inclusive and balanced survey of the major issues debated by Western environmentalists over the last three decades.
Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald receives Nobel Prize
Ostwald is seen as one of the founders of physical chemistry.
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Landscapes
Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.
"The Cunning of Unreason and Nature's Revolt: Max Horkheimer and William Leiss on the Domination of Nature"
The ‘domination of nature’ is a concept now fraught with negative connotations; however, it was not always thus.
Arne Næss’ The Shallow and the Deep
This essay introduces the term deep ecology to philosophical debates.
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Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things
Titus Lucretius Carus’s work is an extended reflection on the role of man within nature, influenced by Epicureanism.
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Fan Kuan's Travelers amid Mountains and Streams
Fan Kuan is one of the leading landscape painters in the Northern Song Tradition, and one of the most important artists in traditional China.
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