Nature and Experience, an Introduction, Bryan E. Bannon / Part I: Phenomenology of Nature / 1. Mythic Enlightenment: Phenomenology and the Question Concerning Nature, Bryan Smyth / 2. Towards a Phenomenology of Nature, Janet Donohoe / 3. Natural Phenomena: The Birth and Growth of Experience, Thomas Greaves / 4. Phenomenology and the Charge of Anthropocentrism, Simon James / 5. Nature, Meaning, and Value, Bryan E. Bannon / Part II: Metaphor, Agency, and the Human relation to Nature / 6. Intersubjectivity, the Environment, and Moral Failure, Mark Thorsby / 7. Metaphor and Weather: Thinking Ecologically about Metaphor, Experience, and Climate, Elise Springer / 8. Ecofeminism, Ecophenomenology, and the Metaphorics of Nature’s Agency, Tim Christion Myers / 9. Re-Rivering Environmental Imagination: Meander Movement and Merleau-Ponty, Irene J. Klaver / Part III: Practicing Phenomenology / 10. Paradigms, Praxis and Environmental Phenomenology, Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Zachary Shefman and Kristina Welch / 11. Re-appropriating the Ecosystem Services Concept for a Decolonization of 'Nature', Barbara Muraca / 12. Indigenous Experience, Environmental Justice and Settler Colonialism, Kyle Powys Whyte / 13. Music and the Presence of Nature, David E. Cooper / 14. Phenomenological Aesthetics of Landscape and Beauty, Guðbjörg Rannveig Jóhannesdóttir / Bibliography / Index / Notes on Contributors
Bryan E. Bannon is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director
of the Environmental Studies and Sustainability programme at
Merrimack College. He is the author of From Mastery to Mystery: A
Phenomenological Foundation for an Environmental Ethic (2014).
Contributors: David E. Cooper, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus,
Durham University, UK; Janet Donohoe, Professor of Philosophy,
University of West Georgia, USA; Thomas Greaves, Senior Lecturer in
Philosophy, University of East Anglia, UK; Simon P. James, Senior
Lecturer in Philosophy, Durham University, UK; Guobjörg Rannveig
Jóhannesdóttir, Graduate Student, University of Iceland; Irene
Klaver, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas, USA;
Scott Marratto, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Michigan
Technological University, USA; Barbara Muraca, Assistant Professor
of Philosophy, Oregon State University, USA; Tim Christian Myers,
Graduate Student, University of Oregon, USA; Bryan Smith, Associate
Professor of Philosophy, University of Mississippi, USA; Elise
Springer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University,
USA; Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Dean, Faculty of Environment, Simon
Fraser University, Canada; Mark Thorsby, Professor of Philosophy,
Lone Star College, USA
A sparkling collection of essays from some of today’s liveliest
minds writing in a broadly phenomenological tradition. It
highlights the complexity of our experience of nature, the range of
metaphors, narratives and normativities woven into the idea of
nature, and the relevance of an experiential approach to how our
understanding of nature impacts education, decolonization and
aesthetics. A compelling addition to the environmental philosophy
literature.
*David Wood, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor
of European Studies, Vanderbilt University*
Nature and Experience is an important contribution to the ongoing
development of eco-phenomenology and environmental hermeneutics.
Grounded in a commitment to the relationality at the heart of the
phenomenological project, this volume sparkles with insight on
topics as varied as anthropocentrism, moral responsibility,
metaphor, ecological imagination, environmental justice, and
aesthetics—and does so in a manner that is eminently
accessible.
*Brian Treanor, Charles S. Casassa Chair and Professor of
Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University*
This collection deserves to be read not just by those working in
"continental" environmental philosophy but also by environmental
philosophers more broadly. Its clear, well-written essays grapple
with and reconceptualize some of the area's key questions, and do
so in novel and refreshing ways. Many of them would work well even
in an undergraduate environmental philosophy course, and could
bring something really new to such a setting.
*Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
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