Participating with nature : outline for an ecologization of our world view /

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Author / Creator:Zweers, Wim.
Imprint:Utrecht : International Books, 2000.
Description:400 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4378218
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ISBN:9057270102 : $29.95
Notes:Translation: Janet Taylor.
"The original Dutch text was revised, but not entirely updated, and considerably shortened before translation"--p. 10.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. I. Attitudes to nature
  • 1. The importance of basic attitudes
  • 2. A closer look at six basic attitudes
  • 3. Evaluation and definition of position
  • Ch. II. Participation and intrinsic value
  • 1. Environmental crisis and separationism
  • 2. 'Ecologism' as a fundamental alternative
  • 3. Intrinsic value of nature
  • 4. Participating with nature
  • Ch. III. Ecological metaphysics
  • 1. The ecological world view
  • 2. Epistemology in the ecological perspective
  • 3. Historical context
  • Ch. IV. Ecological aesthetics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aesthetic attitude
  • 3. Natural reality as aesthetic object
  • Ch. V. Ecological Spirituality
  • 1. Introduction: on spiritual traditions
  • 2. Ecological spirituality
  • 3. Christianity and ecological spirituality
  • Ch. VI. Towards a new connection: ecologism as postmodernism.