Frog Pond Philosophy : Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature / edited by Ceara Donnelley and Bruce Jennings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelley, Strachan, author.

Series:

Culture of the land: a series in the new agrarianism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Human beings--Effect of environment on.

Human beings.

Human ecology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2018.

Summary:

The philanthropist and philosopher Strachan Donnelley (1942--2008) devoted his life to studying the complex relationship between humans and nature. Founder and first president of the Center for Humans and Nature, Donnelley was a pioneer in the exploration and promotion of the idea that human beings individually and collectively have moral and civic responsibilities to natural ecosystems. In this wide-ranging volume, Donnelley traces the connections between influential figures such as Aldo Leopold and Charles Darwin, as well as lesser-known but original thinkers that he met during the course of a full life -- ministers at his church, friends with whom he fished, and colleagues who shared his passion for research and writing. He grounds his work in classic philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Whitehead and reinterprets their writings about the natural world to develop a conservation-centered philosophy, which he dubs "democratic ecological citizenship." Edited by his daughter, Ceara Donnelley, and Bruce Jennings, Frog Pond Philosophy illuminates the dominant strands of Donnelley's intellectual identity as a philosopher, naturalist, agitator, and spiritualist. Despite his often grim depiction of the current state of the environment, Donnelly never surrenders his faith in humanity's ability to meet its ethical obligations to conserve, respect, and nurture the complexity and diversity of the natural world. His vivid and personal essays, rooted in everyday experiences, offer a distinctive perspective on questions of urgent contemporary importance.

Contents:

Front cover

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1 Prelude The Marginalist

2 Prelude The Roots of a Philosophic Vocation-Prairie Ball Fields and Louisville Slugger Ideas

3 Frog Pond Philosophy

4 Intelligent Design and the Matter of Matter

5 Kansas on My Mind

6 Scientists' Public Responsibilities

7 Bottom Lines and the Earth's Future

8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature

9 Nature's Wildness

10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers

11 Big Little Snake

12 Hunting Hennepin's Windblown Bottom

13 Leopold's Wildness

14 Leopold's Darwin

15 What Philosophic Cosmology Can Teach Us

16 Nature Alive in Spinoza and Whitehead

17 Neo-Darwinian Cosmologies

18 Life and the Ethics of Responsibility

19 The Philosopher's Poet

20 Francis of Mepkin

Editors' Afterword

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6729-9

0-8131-7566-6

0-8131-6728-0

OCLC:

1009618297