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1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1. Tractatus Ecologia Paradoxi -- Introduction -- On the Nature of Paradox -- Ecological Problems and Paradigmatic Solutions -- Protected Area Dilemmas -- The Paradox of Protection -- The Ecclesiastes Factor -- Pathologies of Self-Image -- Paradoxical Frontiers -- The Obsolescence of Presuppositions -- Ecological Contradiction, Antinomy and Counter-Intuition -- Heavy and Light Contingencies of Consciousness -- The Paradise Paradox -- Codex Sinaiticus -- Russell's Paradox as Ecological Proxy -- The Evolution of Innocence and Strategy -- Tatters and Poignancies -- The Echoes of Malhazine -- A Cave at Taranga -- A Village in Prince Christian Sound -- The Grampians -- The Yasuní Effect -- Sakteng -- A River Somewhere in Georgia -- Jan Van Goyen's Exquisite Obsession -- Paradox of the Lamb -- Botanical Equations for Paradox -- Part 2. Ecological Memories and Fractions -- The Metaphysics of Photography -- The Consolations of a Château -- Book of the Dead -- Ecological Double-Binds -- The Temptation of the Catastrophe: Deep Structures of Suicide -- Cave Paintings of the Mind -- Moral Choices in an Epoch of Angst -- The Dream of Don Quixote -- The Ratiocinations of Rakiura -- Human Evolution at a Glance within Ryoan-ji -- The Paradox of Light -- The Last Numbers of Emptiness -- Shelley's Ecological Exile and His Utopia of Animal Rights -- The Zoosemiotic Paradox of Aesop -- The Conical Temple of Konawsh -- Does Natural Selection Select for Natural Selection? -- The Paradox of Solace -- Collodi's Garden and the Misadventures of Pinocchio -- The Poetics of Biodiversity: Kazantzakis and Crete -- Famine in Bangladesh -- Sakya Coming Out of his Mountain Retreat -- The Mind of a Chicken -- The Christ Paradox -- Unthinkable Nullities, Negative Proofs -- Irrational Biomes -- The Extinction Probability Era -- Non-Linear Reciprocity -- The Unfettered Gaze -- No Equation for It: Numbers with No Attachment -- A Situational Animal Rights Ethic -- The Geography of Contradiction -- Metaphysical Landscapes -- Savery's Castle of Secrets -- Human Cruelty and SARS-CoV-2 -- Part 3. A Natural History of Existentialism -- Strange Connectors -- The Synecological Conscience -- The Ecological Summons of Jain Mathematical Calculations -- Fundaments of Observation and Melancholy -- The Great Divergence -- Mismatches -- True Narcissism -- Caesuras of Certainty -- The Other -- Of Malignant Variables -- The Concept of Zero -- On the Nature of Equivalencies -- Metaphorical Realities -- Ecological Epistemology -- The Natural Selection of Indeterminacy -- Imagining Transitions -- The Finely-Honed Basis of Unknowing -- The Buddhist Obtuse and its Ecological Correlates -- Ecological Emptiness -- Temptational Obscurity That Brings Hope to Life -- Biological Proxies for the Individual -- Shifting Balance -- Comes Crashing Down Upon It -- Systems Paradox -- The Final Hermitage of Ideals -- The Paradox of Prayer -- Forgiveness -- Rebirth -- The Cycle of Alterities -- The Individual and the Circumference -- Non-Linear Ethics -- A Lost Species -- Ecological Idealism -- The Problem of Interdependency -- A Metaphysics of Naturalism -- The Phylogenetic Conundrum -- The Biosphere Beyond Humanity -- The Anthropic Syllogism -- The Last Island -- Coda: Liberation Ecosynthesis -- Index |
| Summary |
This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological and from an insular perspective, successful struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Those metrics are examined from numerous multidisciplinary approaches in this thoroughly original work, which aids readers, particularly natural history students, who aspire to grasp the far-reaching dimensions of the Anthropocene, as it affects every facet of human experience, past, present and future, and the rest of planetary sentience. With a Preface by Dr. Gerald Wayne Clough, former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Foreword by Robert Gillespie, President of the non-profit, Population Communication |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 16, 2021) |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Philosophy.
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Paradox.
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Ecology -- Philosophy
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Paradox
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morrison, Jane Gray, author
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| ISBN |
9783030645267 |
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3030645266 |
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