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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Yale Univ Pr
Publication date
May 1, 1991
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780300048513
ISBN-10
0300048513
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$35.00
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
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The Wilderness World of John Muir | Nature's Economy | A Sand County Almanac | Wilderness and the American Mind | Changes in the Land | Uncommon Ground | The Organic Machine | The Rights of Nature | The Chalice and the Blade
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this book Max Oelschlaeger argues that the idea of wilderness has reflected the evolving character of human existence from paleolithic times to the present day. An intellectual history, it draws together evidence from philosophy, anthropology, theology, literature, ecology, cultural geography, and archaeology to provide a scientifically and philosophically informed understanding of humankind's relationship to nature. Oelschlaeger begins by examining the culture of prehistoric hunter-gatherers, whose totems symbolized the idea of organic unity between humankind and wild nature, an idea that the author believes is essential to any attempt to define human potential. He next traces how the transformation of these hunter-gatherers into farmers led to a new awareness of distinctions between humankind and nature, and how Hellenism and Judeo-Christianity later introduced the concept that nature was valueless until humanized. Oelschlaeger discusses the concept of wilderness in relation to the rise of classical science and modernism, and shows that opposition to "modernism" arose almost immediately from scientific, literary, and philosophical communities. He provides studies of the seminal American figures Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold and he gives fresh readings of America's two prodigious wilderness poets Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder. He concludes with a look at the relationship of evolutionary thought to our postmodern effort to reconceptualize ourselves as civilized beings who remain, in some ways, natural animals.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Yale Univ Pr (May 1, 1991)
9780300048513 | details & prices | List price $35.00
About: In this book Max Oelschlaeger argues that the idea of wilderness has reflected the evolving character of human existence from paleolithic times to the present day.
About: In this book Max Oelschlaeger argues that the idea of wilderness has reflected the evolving character of human existence from paleolithic times to the present day.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Yale Univ Pr (February 1, 1993); titled "The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology"
9780300053708 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.65 lbs | List price $35.00
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