Through the looking-glass: Environmentalism and the problem of freedom

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-41

  Kirkman, Robert ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (29)

1. Jean Henri Fabre, The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre, trans. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Boston: Beacon Press, 1991), p. 18.
2. Ibid., p. 24.
3. Tor Nørretranders, The User Illusion, trans. Jonathan Sydenham (New York: Viking, 1998), p. 216.
4. Ibid., p. 220
5. See Luc Ferry, The New Ecological Order, trans. Carol Volk (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). See especially ch. 1, "Antinatural Man."
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The First and Second Discourses, ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1990), p. 148.
7. Ferry, op. cit., p. 5.
8. See Leslie Paul Thiele, "Nature and Freedom: A Heideggerian Critique of Biocentric and Sociocentric Environmentalism," Environmental Ethics 17 (1995), p. 182.
9. I b i d.
10. I b i d.
11. See E. O. Wilson, Consiliennce (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), pp. 119-120.
12. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans. H. J. Paton (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964), p. 123.
13. Ibid., p. 124.
14. See Nørretranders, op. cit., pp. 243-250.
15. Ferry, op. cit., p. 8.
16. Ibid., p. 5
17. Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1985), p. 67.
18. Warwick Fox, Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), p. 252.
19. Ferry, op. cit., p. 131.
20. Murray Bookchin, Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future (Boston: South End Press, 1990), p. 13.
21. See Thiele, "Nature and Freedom," p. 178.
22. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, and sketches here and there, (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1949), pp. 202-203.
23. J. Baird Callicott, In Defence of the Land Ethic (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989), p. 127.
24. Ibid., p. 125.
25. Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000), p. 10.
26. Leopold, op. cit., p. 203.
27. Devall and Sessions, op. cit., pp. 18-19.
28. See Ariel Kay Salleh, "Deeper than Deep Ecology: The Eco-Feminist Collection", Environmental Ethics 6 (1984). See also Cheney, op. cit.
29. A version of this paper was read at a meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy. The author wishes to thank Trish Glazebrook, Chris Nagel, Rik Scarce and Steve Vogel for their comments.