Ecology, community, and lifestyle : outline of an ecosophy
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Bibliographic Information
Ecology, community, and lifestyle : outline of an ecosophy
Cambridge University Press, 1990, c1989
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Økologi, samfunn, og livsstil
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Note
"Not a direct translation of Arne Naess' 1976 work, Økologi, samfunn, og livsstil, but rather a new work in English, based on the Norwegian, with many sections revised and rewritten by Professor Næss and myself ..."--Translator's pref
Bibliography: p. [213]-216
Includes index
"First paperback edition 1990"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The basic thesis of the work is that environmental problems are only to be solved by people - people who will be required to make value judgements in conflicts that go beyond narrowly conceived human concerns. Thus people require not only an ethical system, but a way of conceiving the world and themselves such that the intrinsic value of life and nature is obvious, a system based on 'deep ecological principles'. The book encourages readers to identify their own series of such parameters - their own ecosophies. Ecology, Comunity and Lifestyle will appeal to philosophers, specialists working on environmental issues, and the more general reader who is interested in learning some of the foundational ideas of the rapidly expanding field of environmental philosophy.
Table of Contents
- Translator's preface
- Introduction: ecosophy T - from intuition to system David Rothenberg
- 1. The environmental crisis and the deep ecological movement
- 2. From ecology to ecosophy
- 3. Fact and value: basic norms
- 4. Ecosophy, technology, and lifestyle
- 5. Economics within ecosophy
- 6. Ecopolitics within ecosophy
- 7. Ecosophy T: unity and diversity of life
- Bibliography
- Index.
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