Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth

Rethinking Our Place on Earth
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-16608-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 871 g

This powerful book provides the first comprehensive overview of the intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics - and synthesizes them into a new philosophy of nature in which to ground our moral values and social action. It traces the origins and evolution of the dominant worldview that has built our industrial, technocratic, man-centered civilization, and brought us to the current ecological crisis. At the same time, it uncovers an alternative cultural tradition in the world's different religions and philosophies and describes how these ideas are now surfacing and coalescing to form an ecological sensibility and a new vision of nature which recognizes the inter-relatedness of all living things. Finally, this book integrates these varied traditions with modern physics and the science of ecology into a larger philosophical whole that provides the environmental movement with a comprehensive vision of an organic and sustainable society in harmony with nature. As ecological disasters continue to threaten our planet, becoming worse with every passing moment of indifference, it has become clear that we must take action. We must change our relationship with nature, and return to the days when our lives were intimately connected to and dependent upon the natural world. Nature's Web lays the foundations for that change by explaining where our complex ideas about nature come from, why they are wrong, and what we can do to change them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marshall, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I Ancient Roots; Chapter 1 Taoism; Chapter 2 Hinduism; Chapter 3 Buddhism; Chapter 4 Ancient Egypt; Chapter 5 Early Greece; Chapter 6 The Romans; Chapter 7 Celtic Mysteries; Chapter 8 The Judaeo-Christian Tradition; Chapter 9 Christianity; Chapter 10 Islam; Chapter 11 North American Indians; Part II Seeds Beneath the Snow; Chapter 12 Alchemy; Chapter 13 The Scientific Revolution; Chapter 14 Philosophers of the Brave New World; Chapter 15 The Philosophical Counter-Revolution; Chapter 16 The Enlightenment; Chapter 17 To Follow Nature; Chapter 18 Primitivism and the Noble Savage; Chapter 19 Changing Sensibilities; Part III Green Visions; Chapter 20 The Romantic Mind and Imagination; Chapter 21 Romantic Cosmology; Chapter 22 Utopian Seers; Chapter 23 Darwinism and the Web of Life; Chapter 24 The New World of Ecology; Chapter 25 Philosophers of the Earth; Chapter 26 Time and Being; Chapter 27 The Cosmic Joy of the New Science; Chapter 28 The Resurrection of Gaia; Part IV The Joining of the Ways; Chapter 29 Environmental Ethics; Chapter 30 Deep Ecology versus Social Ecology; Chapter 31 Towards a Libertarian Ecology; Chapter 32 Ecotopia Revisited;

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Marshall