Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Environmental Hermeneutics
Part I: Interpretation and the Task of Thinking Environmentally
1. Environmental Hermeneutics Deep in the Forest
2. Morrow' s Ants: E. O. Wilson and Gadamer's Critique of (Natural) Historicism
3. Layering: Body, Building, Biography
4. Might Natur e Be Interpreted as a "Saturated Phenomenon"?
5. Must Environme ntal Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel
Part II: Situating the Self
6. Environmental Hermeneutics and Environmental/ Eco-Psychology: Explorations in Environmental Identity
7. Environmental Hermeneutics with and for Others: Ricoeur's Ethics and the Ecological Self
8. Bodily Moods and Unhomely Environments: The Hermeneutics of Agoraphobia and the Spirit of Place
Part III: Narrativity and Image
9. Narrative and Nature: Appreciating and Understanding the Nonhuman World
10. The Question Concerning Nature
11. New Nature Narratives: Landscape Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics
Part IV: Environments, Place, and the Experience of Time
12. Memory, Imagination, and the Hermeneutics of Place
13. The Betweenness of Monuments
14. My Place in the Sun
15. How Hermeneutics Might Save the Life of (Environmental) Ethics
Notes
A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics
Contributors
Index