Deep Ecology

A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 218-232

  Mathews, Freya ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Christians; Deep ecology; Diversity; Humanity; Pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948735052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751664.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

References (21)

1. Bodian, Stephan (1982) "Simple in means, rich in ends: an interview with Arne Naess," in The Ten Directions (Los Angeles Zen Center); reprinted in Sessions 1995.
2. Bookchin, Murray (1982) The Ecology of Freedom (Palo Alto, California: Cheshire). [A locus classicus for Bookchin's metaphysics of nature and its implications for social and political organization.]
3. Devall, Bill and Sessions, George (1985) Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered (Salt Lake City, Utah: Peregrine Smith Books). [The first book-length exposition of deep ecology for an English-speaking readership, containing an eclectic range of inspiring ideas from a variety of nature traditions.]
4. Drengson, Alan and Inoue, Yuichi, eds. (1995) The Deep Ecology Movement (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books). [A useful collection of Naess's definitive articulations of deep ecology together with a selection of sympathetic elaborations and explorations by other authors.]
5. Fox, Warwick (1984) "Deep ecology: a new philosophy for our times?," The Ecologist 14, no. 5/ 6, pp. 194-200. [An early clarion call to deep ecology by one of its principal interpreters.]
6. Fox, Warwick (1989) "The deep ecology-ecofeminism debate and its parallels," Environmental Ethics 11, no. 1 (Spring). [A defense of deep ecology against the ecofeminist charge that it is "androcentric."]
7. Guha, Ramachandra (1989) "Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation: a third world critique," Environmental Ethics 11 (Spring), pp. 71-83. [The title is self-explanatory: a classic postcolonial critique of the wilderness ethos.]
8. Mathews, Freya (1991), The Ecological Self (London: Routledge). [An exploration of the metaphysical assumptions that underlie modern western attitudes to nature and a detailed articulation of an alternative, more ecological metaphysic.]
9. Mathews, Freya (1999) "Letting the world grow old: an ethos of countermodernity," Worldviews 3, no. 2. [A reinterpretation of environmentalism in custodial terms that apply to urban as well as ecological contexts.]
10. Mies, Maria and Shiva, Vandana (1993) Ecofeminism (Melbourne: Spinifex). [The final chapter offers a suggestive outline of a "subsistence perspective" that can be realized in western as well as third world societies.]
11. Naess, Arne (1973a), "The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement," Inquiry 16; reprinted in Drengson and Inoue 1995.
12. Naess, Arne (1973b) "The place of joy in a world of fact," The North American Review 258, no. 2; reprinted in Sessions 1995.
13. Naess, Arne (1987) "Self-realization: an ecological approach to being in the world," The Trumpeter 4, no. 3, pp 35-42; reprinted in Sessions 1995. (1989a) Ecology, Community and Lifestyle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). [A source book for Naess's more discursive treatment of deep ecology themes.]
14. Naess, Arne (1995) "The apron diagram," in Drengson and Inoue 1995.
15. Naess, Arne and Sessions, George (1985) "platform principles of the deep ecology movement," in Devall and Sessions 1985; reprinted in Drengson and Inoue 1995.
16. Plumwood, Val (1993) Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (London: Routledge). [A comprehensive analysis of the systematic ways in which different forms of social and political domination are linked with the domination of nature.]
17. Sessions, George, ed. (1995) Deep Ecology for the Twenty-first Century (Boston: Shambhala). [A voluminous anthology of deep ecology writings by Naess and others which attempts to convey and enlarge the sweep of deep ecology as a movement for the twenty-first century.]
18. Taylor, Bron ed. (1995) Ecological Resistance Movements (Albany: State University of New York Press). [A collection of accounts of radical ecology from the different cultural perspectives of movements in first world and third world countries.]
19. Wright, Judith (1991) Born of the Conquerors (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press). [A collection of essays on colonialism and environmentalism from this foremost Australian poet.]
20. Fox, Warwick (1990) Towards a Transpersonal Ecology (Boston: Shambhala). [An influential systematization, exposition, and further development of the deep ecology approach to envir-onmentalism.]
21. Katz, Eric, Light, Andrew, and Rothenberg, David, eds. (2000) Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press). [The first collection of essays which engages critically with deep ecology from points of view that lie outside those of the "rival" eco-philosophies.]