Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

by Martin Drenthen and Brian Treanor

Book Overview

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 tom, history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823254267
• ISBN13: 9780823254262
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"