The idea of wilderness : from prehistory to the age of ecology / Max Oelschlaeger.
By: Oelschlaeger, Max
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TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xii, 477 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300048513Subject(s): Human ecology -- Philosophy | Wilderness areas | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Philosophy of nature | EcologyDDC classification: 333.78/2 LOC classification: GF21 | .O34 1991Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-459) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-459) and index.
The idea of wilderness : from paleolithic to neolithic culture -- Ancient Mediterranean ideas of humankind and nature : the passage from myth to history -- The alchemy of modernism : the transmutation of wilderness into nature -- Wild nature : critical responses to modernism -- Henry David Thoreau : philosopher of the wilderness -- John Muir : wilderness sage -- Aldo Leopold and the age of ecology -- The idea of wilderness in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder -- Contemporary wilderness philosophy : from resourcism to deep ecology -- Cosmos and wilderness : a postmodern wilderness philosophy.