The world in which we occur : John Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century / Neil W. Browne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Neil W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology in literature.

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Dewey, John, 1859-1952--Criticism and interpretation.

Dewey, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

John Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be one with the natural world. In his writings, particularly Art as Experience (1934), Dewey insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. Dewey's conception of environment includes both the natural and the man-made. The World in Which We Occur highlights this notion in order to define "pragmatist ecology," a practice rooted in the interface of the cultural and the natural. Neil Browne finds this to be a significant feature of some of the most important ecological writing of the last centu

Contents:

An arc of discovery: John Muir's my first summer in the Sierra

The form of the new: pragmatist ecology and Sea of Cortez

Rachel Carson's Marginal world: pragmatist ecology, aesthetics, and ethics

The coldest scholar on Earth: silence and work in John Haines's The stars, the snow, the fire

Northern imagination, wonder, politics, and pragmatist ecology in Barry Lopez's Arctic dreams.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-217) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8017-5

OCLC:

300571848