Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

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Author/Contributor(s): Clingerman, Forrest
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Date: 11/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
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Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns--"wilderness" and "nature" among them--are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.