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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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""Front cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Prelude The Marginalist""; ""2 Prelude The Roots of a Philosophic Vocationâ#x80;#x94;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 Scientistsâ#x80;#x99; Public Responsibilities""; ""7 Bottom Lines and the Earthâ#x80;#x99;s Future""; ""8 Transgenic Animals and Wild Nature""; ""9 Natureâ#x80;#x99;s Wildness""; ""10 Wild Turkeys and Old Gobblers""; ""11 Big Little Snake""; ""12 Hunting Hennepinâ#x80;#x99;s Windblown Bottom"" |
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""13 Leopoldâ#x80;#x99;s Wildness""""14 Leopoldâ#x80;#x99;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 Philosopherâ#x80;#x99;s Poet""; ""20 Francis of Mepkin""; ""Editorsâ#x80;#x99; Afterword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Bibliography""; ""References"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on. |
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Human ecology.
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Human ecology. |
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Environmental protection.
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Environmental protection. |
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Human-animal relationships.
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Human-animal relationships. |
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Electronic books.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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Donnelley, Ceara, editor.
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Jennings, Bruce, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813167275 0813167272 (OCoLC)1001457112 |
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9780813167282 (electronic book) |
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0813167280 (electronic book) |
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9780813167275 |
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0813167272 |
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