Fifty great thinkers on the environment/ edited by

By:

Palmer, Joy A. (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Routledge; 2004Description: 321pISBN:

9780415146999

DDC classification:

333.7 FIF

Summary: Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: * Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and Heidegger * Activists such as Chico Mendes * Literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth Major religious and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and St Francis of Assisi. Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.

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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are:

* Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and Heidegger
* Activists such as Chico Mendes
* Literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth

Major religious and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and St Francis of Assisi.
Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.

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