|
|
 |
 |
J. Baird Callicott
Earth's Insights
A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback
$22.95, £16.50 paperback
978-0-520-08560-2
Available Now
Free online edition (eScholarship)--available only to University of California faculty, staff, and students (List of public titles)
"An important book. . . . We owe [Callicott] a huge new debt of gratitude for the breadth of knowledge he brings . . . and for showing by the trajectory of his work the necessity of embracing a radical environmental, and deep ecological, context for the environmental ethics of the future."—Frederic L. Bender, Philosophy East and West
"Everyone concerned with the environment should read this book."—E. N. Anderson, Journal of Ethnobiology
"In an ambitious and mostly successful project, environmental philosopher J. Baird Callicott. . . ultimately develops a vision of multiple independent belief systems supporting each other in humanity's effort to live more sanely."—Whole Earth Review
"Everyone concerned with the environment should read this book."—E. N. Anderson, Journal of Ethnobiology
"In an ambitious and mostly successful project, environmental philosopher J. Baird Callicott. . . ultimately develops a vision of multiple independent belief systems supporting each other in humanity's effort to live more sanely."—Whole Earth Review
"A lucid, original, and useful work by a fine scholar already well known in the emerging field of environmental philosophy."—David Abram, University of Kansas
The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges broadly, exploring the sacred texts of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism, as well as the oral traditions of Polynesia, North and South America, and Australia. He also documents the attempts of various peoples to put their environmental ethics into practice. Finally, he wrestles with a question of vital importance to all people sharing the fate of this small planet: How can the world's many and diverse environmental philosophies be brought together in a complementary and consistent whole?
Preface
Foreward, by Tom Hayden
Introduction: The Notion of and Need for Environmental Ethics
The Historical Roots of Western European Environmental Attitudes and Values
Environmental Attitudes and Values in South asian Intellectual Traditions
Traditional East Asian Deep Ecology
Ecological Insights in East Asian Buddhism
Far Western Environmental Ethics
South American Eco-Eroticism
African Biocommunitarianism and Australian Dreamtime
A Postmodern Evolutional-Ecological Environmental Ethic
Traditional Evironmental Ethics in Action
Foreward, by Tom Hayden
Introduction: The Notion of and Need for Environmental Ethics
The Historical Roots of Western European Environmental Attitudes and Values
Environmental Attitudes and Values in South asian Intellectual Traditions
Traditional East Asian Deep Ecology
Ecological Insights in East Asian Buddhism
Far Western Environmental Ethics
South American Eco-Eroticism
African Biocommunitarianism and Australian Dreamtime
A Postmodern Evolutional-Ecological Environmental Ethic
Traditional Evironmental Ethics in Action
The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature, by William R. Jordan III
LifePlace: Bioregional Thought and Practice, by Robert L. Thayer, Jr.
LifePlace: Bioregional Thought and Practice, by Robert L. Thayer, Jr.