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Beneath the Surface Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology

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ISBN-10: 0262112523

ISBN-13: 9780262112529

Edition: 2000

Authors: Eric Katz, Andrew Light, David Rothenberg

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This work approaches deep ecology as a philosophy. It compares deep ecology's philosophical ideas with other positions and debates in environmental philosphy and investigates the connections between deep ecology and other contemporary views.
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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/20/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Andrew Light is assistant professor of environmental philosophy, director of the Environmental Conservation program, and codirector of the Applied Philosophy Group at New York University. He is the author of Reel Arguments: Film, Philosophy, and Social Criticismand is the editor or coeditor of fifteen books on philosophy and environmental studies. He lives in New York City.Jonathan M. Smith is professor of geography at Texas A& M and is the coeditor of Re-Reading Cultural Geography; Worldview Flux: Perplexed Values Among Postmodern Peoples; American Space/American Place: Geographies of the Contemporary United States; and the journal Philosophy and Geography. He lives in Bryan, Texas.

David Rothenberg is Professor of Philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology andfounder of the Terra Nova book series. His most recent books are Alwaysthe Mountains and Sudden Music: Improvisation, Art and Nature.

About the Contributors
Introduction: Deep Ecology as Philosophy
Deep Ecology and Its Critics
How Wide is Deep Ecology?
Against the Inevitability of Anthropocentricism
A Critique of Deep Green Theory
Deep Ecology, Deep Pockets, and Deep Problems: A Feminist Ecosocialist Analysis
Ontological Determinism and Deep Ecology: Evading the Moral Questions?
In Defense of Deep Ecology: An Ecofeminist Response to a Liberal Critique
Callicott and Naess on Pluralism
New Horizons for Deep Ecology
No World but in Things: The Poetry of Naess's Concrete Contents
Possible Political Problems of Earth-Based Religiosity
The Postmodernism of Deep Ecology, the Deep Ecology of Postmodernism, and Grand Narratives
Deep Ecology and Desire: On Naess and the Problem of Consumption
Bhagavadgita, Ecosophy T, and Deep Ecology
A State of Mind Like Water: Ecosophy T and the Buddhist Traditions
Deep Ecology and Its Social Philosophy: A Critique
Bibliography
Index