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Author Browne, Neil W.

Title The world in which we occur : John Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century / Neil W. Browne
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
Contents An arc of discovery: John Muir's my first summer in the Sierra -- The form of the new: pragmatist ecology and Sea of Cortez -- Rachel Carson's Marginal world: pragmatist ecology, aesthetics, and ethics -- The coldest scholar on Earth: silence and work in John Haines's The stars, the snow, the fire -- Northern imagination, wonder, politics, and pragmatist ecology in Barry Lopez's Arctic dreams
Summary American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be one with the natural world. In his writings, particularly Art as Experience (1934), Dewey insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. Dewey?s conception of environment includes both the natural and the man-made. The World in Which We Occur highlights this notion in order to define?pragmatist ecology,? a practice rooted in the interface of the cultural and the natural. Neil Browne finds this to be a significant feature of some of the most important ecological writing of the last century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index
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Subject Dewey, John, 1859-1952 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Dewey, John, 1859-1952 fast
Subject Human ecology in literature.
Human ecology -- Philosophy
Human ecology -- Philosophy. Human ecology in literature. Dewey, John -- 1859-1952 -- Criticism and interpretation
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Human ecology in literature
Human ecology -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817380175
0817380175
9780817315818
0817315810
Other Titles John Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century