| Description |
xvi, 275 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: TV Dinners and the Organic Brunch -- Pt. I. The Call of the Wild. Ch. 1. The Great Wild Hope: Nature, Environmentalism, and the Open Secret / William Chaloupka and R. McGreggor Cawley. Ch. 2. Building Wilderness / Wade Sikorski. Ch. 3. Intimate Distance: The Dislocation of Nature in Modernity / Shane Phelan -- Pt. II. Animal and Artifice. Ch. 4. "Manning" the Frontiers: The Politics of (Human) Nature in Blade Runner / Michael J. Shapiro. Ch. 5. Brave New World in the Discourses of Reproductive and Genetic Technologies / Valerie Hartouni. Ch. 6. Going Wild: The Contested Terrain of Nature / Jan E. Dizard -- Pt. III. Environmentalist Talk. Ch. 7. Restoring Nature: Natives and Exotics / John Rodman. Ch. 8. Green Consumerism: Ecology and the Ruse of Recycling / Timothy W. Luke. Ch. 9. Green Fields/Brown Skin: Posting as a Sign of Recognition / Cheri Lucas Jennings and Bruce H. Jennings -- Pt. IV. The Order(ing) of Nature |
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Ch. 10. Voices from the Whirlwind / William E. Connolly. Ch. 11. Ecotones and Environmental Ethics: Adorno and Lopez / Romand Coles. Ch. 12. Primate Visions and Alter-Tales / Jane Bennett |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Environmental ethics.
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Environmental protection -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Author |
Bennett, Jane, 1957-
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Chaloupka, William, 1948-
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| LC no. |
92047101 //r94 |
| ISBN |
0816623082 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0816623074 (hard : alk. paper) |
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