商品簡介
Rothenberg (philosophy, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and editor, Terra Nova ) and Ulvaeus (director of Terra Nova ) reprint 16 articles offering international perspectives on wilderness (first published in Terra Nova v.3, no.3). The editors' position is that contra such thinkers as William Cronon and J. Baird Callicott, wilderness is a meritorious term, an enlightened concept with as much or more value as biodiversity and sustainability. While the Terra Nova directors set out to purge wilderness of misapplied meanings, the real goal of this anthology is to "reinvigorate the effort to understand, reveal, and save wilderness beyond the usual futile polarities" (i.e., nature/culture, manimal, natural/artificial). Topics include Romantic nature painting by Zeese Papanikolas, social ecology in India by Sahotra Sarkar, saving endangered species and cultures by Edward Whitsell, and the Penan of Malaysia by William Bevis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
David Rothenberg is Associate Professor of philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of Hand’s End: Technology and the Limits of Nature and Is It Painful to Think? Conversations with Arne Naess, and editor of the award-winning journal Terra Nova: Nature and Culture.
