Rorty and postmodern environmental ethics: Recontextualizing narrative, reason, and representation

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-193

  Hood, Robert ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 7444247991     PISSN: 01634275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics199820231     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. There is a growing literature on postmodern environmental ethics, but so far none looks specifically at Rorty's influence on the field. See for example, Jim Cheney, "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative," Environmental Ethics 11 (1989): 117-34; Thomas H. Birch, "The Incarceration of Wilderness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons" Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 3-26; Robert Frodeman, "Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 307-20; Peter Quigley, "Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural Theory," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 291-306; Mike Smith, "Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 15 (1993): 3-17, and the anthology, Post-Modern Environmental Ethics, ed. Max Oelschlaeger (Albany: State University of New York, 1995). For a response, see the papers in Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington: Island Press, 1995).
2. There is a growing literature on postmodern environmental ethics, but so far none looks specifically at Rorty's influence on the field. See for example, Jim Cheney, "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative," Environmental Ethics 11 (1989): 117-34; Thomas H. Birch, "The Incarceration of Wilderness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons" Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 3-26; Robert Frodeman, "Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 307-20; Peter Quigley, "Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural Theory," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 291-306; Mike Smith, "Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 15 (1993): 3-17, and the anthology, Post-Modern Environmental Ethics, ed. Max Oelschlaeger (Albany: State University of New York, 1995). For a response, see the papers in Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington: Island Press, 1995).
3. There is a growing literature on postmodern environmental ethics, but so far none looks specifically at Rorty's influence on the field. See for example, Jim Cheney, "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative," Environmental Ethics 11 (1989): 117-34; Thomas H. Birch, "The Incarceration of Wilderness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons" Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 3-26; Robert Frodeman, "Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 307-20; Peter Quigley, "Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural Theory," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 291-306; Mike Smith, "Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 15 (1993): 3-17, and the anthology, Post-Modern Environmental Ethics, ed. Max Oelschlaeger (Albany: State University of New York, 1995). For a response, see the papers in Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington: Island Press, 1995).
4. There is a growing literature on postmodern environmental ethics, but so far none looks specifically at Rorty's influence on the field. See for example, Jim Cheney, "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative," Environmental Ethics 11 (1989): 117-34; Thomas H. Birch, "The Incarceration of Wilderness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons" Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 3-26; Robert Frodeman, "Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 307-20; Peter Quigley, "Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural Theory," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 291-306; Mike Smith, "Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 15 (1993): 3-17, and the anthology, Post-Modern Environmental Ethics, ed. Max Oelschlaeger (Albany: State University of New York, 1995). For a response, see the papers in Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington: Island Press, 1995).
5. There is a growing literature on postmodern environmental ethics, but so far none looks specifically at Rorty's influence on the field. See for example, Jim Cheney, "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative," Environmental Ethics 11 (1989): 117-34; Thomas H. Birch, "The Incarceration of Wilderness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons" Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 3-26; Robert Frodeman, "Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 307-20; Peter Quigley, "Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural Theory," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 291-306; Mike Smith, "Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 15 (1993): 3-17, and the anthology, Post-Modern Environmental Ethics, ed. Max Oelschlaeger (Albany: State University of New York, 1995). For a response, see the papers in Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington: Island Press, 1995).
6. There is a growing literature on postmodern environmental ethics, but so far none looks specifically at Rorty's influence on the field. See for example, Jim Cheney, "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative," Environmental Ethics 11 (1989): 117-34; Thomas H. Birch, "The Incarceration of Wilderness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons" Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 3-26; Robert Frodeman, "Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 307-20; Peter Quigley, "Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural Theory," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 291-306; Mike Smith, "Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 15 (1993): 3-17, and the anthology, Post-Modern Environmental Ethics, ed. Max Oelschlaeger (Albany: State University of New York, 1995). For a response, see the papers in Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington: Island Press, 1995).
7. There is a growing literature on postmodern environmental ethics, but so far none looks specifically at Rorty's influence on the field. See for example, Jim Cheney, "Postmodern Environmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional Narrative," Environmental Ethics 11 (1989): 117-34; Thomas H. Birch, "The Incarceration of Wilderness: Wilderness Areas as Prisons" Environmental Ethics 12 (1990): 3-26; Robert Frodeman, "Radical Environmentalism and the Political Roots of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 307-20; Peter Quigley, "Rethinking Resistance: Environmentalism, Literature, and Poststructural Theory," Environmental Ethics 14 (1992): 291-306; Mike Smith, "Cheney and the Myth of Postmodernism," Environmental Ethics 15 (1993): 3-17, and the anthology, Post-Modern Environmental Ethics, ed. Max Oelschlaeger (Albany: State University of New York, 1995). For a response, see the papers in Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington: Island Press, 1995).
8. Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 1.
9. Ibid., p. 6; also see Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 185.
10. Ibid., p. 6; also see Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 185.
11. Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 5.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., p. 6. The claim that there are no criteria that can be used to decide between different language games has been challenged by Hillary Putnam. On Putnam's view, it is possible to use pragmatic criteria such as well-being to compare different world views. See Hilary Putnam, Pragmatism: An Open Question (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995). For a discussion of the contrast between these two views, see Jennifer Case, "Putnam's 'Pluralistic Realism': An Exposition and Defense" (Ph.D., diss., Washington University, St. Louis, 1995).
14. Ibid., p. 6. The claim that there are no criteria that can be used to decide between different language games has been challenged by Hillary Putnam. On Putnam's view, it is possible to use pragmatic criteria such as well-being to compare different world views. See Hilary Putnam, Pragmatism: An Open Question (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995). For a discussion of the contrast between these two views, see Jennifer Case, "Putnam's 'Pluralistic Realism': An Exposition and Defense" (Ph.D., diss., Washington University, St. Louis, 1995).
15. Ibid., p. 6. The claim that there are no criteria that can be used to decide between different language games has been challenged by Hillary Putnam. On Putnam's view, it is possible to use pragmatic criteria such as well-being to compare different world views. See Hilary Putnam, Pragmatism: An Open Question (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995). For a discussion of the contrast between these two views, see Jennifer Case, "Putnam's 'Pluralistic Realism': An Exposition and Defense" (Ph.D., diss., Washington University, St. Louis, 1995).
16. Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, p. 6.
17. Ibid., p. 36.
18. Ibid., p. 37
19. Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, p. xiv.
20. Ibid., p. 192.
21. Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 12-13, 222.
22. Ibid., p. 145.
23. Ibid., p. 132.
24. Ibid., p. 128.
25. Ibid., p. 48.
26. Ibid., p. 22.
27. Eugene Hargrove, Foundations of Environmental Ethics (1989; reprint ed., Denton, Tex.: Environmental Ethics Books, 1996), p. 104.
28. Ibid., p. 4.
29. Ibid, p. 10.
30. Ibid., pp. 85-98.
31. Ibid., p. 97.
32. Ibid., p. 122.
33. Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979), pp. 357-84.
34. Eugene C. Hargrove, "Weak Anthropocentric Intrinsic Value," in After Earth Day: Continuing the Conservation Effort, ed. Max Oelschlaeger (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1992), pp. 141-69.
35. Michael McRae, "Eyewitnesses: Six Photographers Who Have Changed the Way We See the World," Outside 17 (1992): 113.
36. Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra," in Art after Modernism, ed. Brian Wallis (New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984), p. 262.
37. It could also be irrelevant to preserve the world on Sagoff's symbolic account, for Sagoff acknowledges that "Even while [the United States] tore down the wilderness, it kept nature alive in the symbolism of religion, literature, and art." Sagoff, unlike Hargrove, seems to suggest that the symbolism might still exist even if the object, say, wilderness, does not. Sagoff, Economy of the Earth, p. 40.