Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy
Wayne Ouderkirk, Jim Hill - Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy
Published: 2002 | ISBN: 0791452298, 0791452301 | PDF | 358 pages | 1.12 MB
Leading scholars critically assess the pioneering environmental philosophy of J. Baird Callicott.
This is a critical study of J. Baird Callicott (philosophy and religious studies, Univ. of North Texas), whose online resume runs 37 pages. Callicott has written extensively, authoritatively, and provocatively on environmental ethics, and he challenges other philosophers and philosophy departments to pay more attention to and do more work in this important subject. Starting his own career in Greek philosophy, he was awakened to ethical ecological issues by reading Aldo Leopold's seminal A Sand County Almanac, and his own "land ethic" has been an elaboration and critical extension of ideas found in that book. The 17 essays collected here, contributed by international scholars, leave no aspect of that ethic unexamined. Each subject area, from ecology and ecofeminism to Native American studies, political science, and religion studies, is considered by a variety of writers who question and examine Callicott's thought. The final essay is Callicott's comprehensive reply to his critics. Highly recommended for academic and public library collections.