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Environmental renaissance : Emerson, Thoreau, & the systems of nature / by Andrew McMurry.
LIBRA GE197 .M36 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMurry, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmentalism--United States--Philosophy.
- Environmentalism.
- System theory.
- Philosophy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 269 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Making Emerson and Thoreau more relevant in our ecologically precarious era.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the problem of nature
- Observing nature
- Systems theory, cybernetics, and self-organization
- Emerson's environments
- Thoreau's moral vision
- The American system of nature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820325309
- OCLC:
- 51559013
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