Interpreting Nature
The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics| By: | Brian Treanor; Martin Drenthen; David Utsler |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780823254279 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780823254286 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.