Human-Environment Relations: Transformative Values in Theory and Practice 2012 edition

Marc Notes: Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012. -- Page iv.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introduction PART I: TRANSFORMATIVE VALUES IN THEORY 1. The Value Space of Meaningful Relations 2. Relational Space and Places of Value 3. Conserving Nature s Meanings 4. Revaluing Body and Earth 5. Holderlin and Human-Nature Relations 6. Toward History and the Creaturely: Language and the Intertextual Literary Value Space in Jonathan Safran Foer s Eating Animals 7. The Intimacy of Art and Nature PART II: TRANSFORMATIVE VALUES IN PRACTICE 8. Embodying Climate Change: Renarrating Energy through the Senses and the Spirit 9. Make, Do, and Mend: Solving Placelessness through Embodied Environmental Engagement 10. Art and Living Things: The Ethical, Aesthetic Impulse 11. The Embodiment of Nature: Fishing, Emotion and the Politics of Environmental Values 12. Ethics and Aesthetics of Environmental EngagementIndex"Jacket Description/Back: This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between humans and the world around them in an ethical communicative zone called value-space . The contributors examine the transformative interplay between external environments and human values, and identify concrete ways in which these norms, residing in and derived from self and society, are projected onto the environment. The authors represent a richly diverse range of disciplines, including philosophy, theology, human geography, literature and the arts, each addressing the interwoven nature of human-environment relations and exploring the subject through abstract theory and concrete applications alike. The work includes specific and practical contexts such as climate change and community gardening as well as less tangible aspects of our complex yet interdependent connection with the world around us. As a critical interrogation of human-nature separations, this book seeks to reintegrate the two. It will interest academics and practitioners working in philosophy, environmental studies, the environmental social sciences, and the arts."Publisher Marketing: This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between humans and the world around them in an ethical communicative zone called 'value-space'. The contributors examine the transformative interplay between external environments and human values, and identify concrete ways in which these norms, residing in and derived from self and society, are projected onto the environment.

Contributor Bio:  Brady, Emily Emily Brady is Reader in Aesthetics at the Institute of Geography and Environment and an Academic Associate in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include environmental aesthetics (nature, art, cultural landscapes and everyday life), environmental ethics, Kant and eighteenth-century philosophy. Brady is author of Aesthetics of the Natural Environment (2003) and co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts: Essays after Sibley (2001), Humans in the Land: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Cultural Landscape (2008) and Human-Environment Relations: Transformative Values in Theory and Practice. Brady has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Faculty Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values and is a past president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. She has been an associate editor of Environmental Values and a co-editor of Society and Space and has also served as secretary, treasurer and executive committee member of the British Society of Aesthetics. Contributor Bio:  Phemister, Pauline Pierfrancesco Basile teaches Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His publications include two books, Experience and Relations: An Examination of F. H. Bradley's Conception of Reality (1999) and Leibniz, Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation (2009), as well as several essays on issues in metaphysics, process thought, British idealism and early analytic philosophy.