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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823254259
• ISBN13: 9780823254255
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"