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Interpreting Nature This page intentionally left blank g ROUNDWORKS ECOLOGICAL ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor,Series Editors Series Board: Harvey Jacobs Catherine Keller Norman Wirzba Richard Kearney Mark Wallace David Wood This page intentionally left blank Interpreting Nature The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics EDITED BY Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler Fordham University Press New York 2014 Copyright © 2014 Fordham University Press All rig hts reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Interpreting nature : the emerging fi eld of environmental hermeneutics / edited by Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler. — First edition. pages cm. — (Groundworks: ecological issues in philosophy and theology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-5425-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8232-5426-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Human ecology—Philosophy. 2. Hermeneutics. I. Clingerman, Forrest, editor of compilation. GF21.I58 2014 304.201—dc23 2013004643 Printed in the United States of America 16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1 First e dition Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduc tion: Environmental Hermeneutics 1 David Ut sler, Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and Brian Treanor Part I: I nterpretation and the Task of Thinking Environmentally 1 Enviro nmental Hermeneutics Deep in the Forest 17 John vanBuren 2 Morrow’s Ants: E. O. Wilson and Gadamer’s Critique of (Natural) Historicism 36 Mick Smith 3 Layering: Body, Building, Biography 65 Robert Mugera uer 4 Might Nature Be Interpreted as a “Saturated Phenomenon”? 82 Christina M. Gsc hwandtner 5 Must Environmen tal Philosophy Relinquish the Concept of Nature? A Hermeneutic Reply to Steven Vogel 102 W. S. K. Cameron vii viii Contents Part II: Situatin g the Self 6 Environmental H ermeneutics and Environmental/ Eco-Psychology: Explorations in Environmental Identity 123 David Utsler 7 Environmental He rmeneutics with and for Others: Ricoeur’s Ethics and the Ecological Self 141 Nathan M. Bell 8 Bodily Moods and Un homely Environments: The Hermeneutics of Agoraphobia and the Spirit of Place 160 Dylan Trigg Part III: Narrativity and Image 9 Narrative and Nature : Appreciating and Understanding the Nonhuman World 181 Brian Treanor 10 The Question Concern ing Nature 201 Sean McGrath 11 Ne w Nature Narrative s: Landscape Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics 225 Martin Drenthen Par t IV: Environments, P lace, and the Experience of Time 12 Memory, Imagination, a nd the Hermeneutics of Place 245 Forrest Clingerman 13 The Betweenness of Monu ments 264 Janet Donohoe 14 My Pl ace in the Sun 281 David Wood 15 How Herme neutics Might S ave the Life of (Environmental) Ethics 297 Paul van Tongeren and Paulien Snellen Contents ix Notes 313 A Bibliographic Ov erview of Re search in Environmental Hermeneutics 365 List of Contributors 373 Index 377
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