1st Edition
Key Thinkers on the Environment
Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of diverse and stimulating figures from around the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are:
- philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza and Heidegger
- activists such as Chico Mendes and Wangari Maathai
- literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth
- major religious and spiritual figures such as Buddha and St Francis of Assissi eminent scientists such as Darwin, Lovelock and E.O. Wilson.
Lucid, scholarly and informative, the essays contained within this volume offer a fascinating overview of humankind’s view and understanding of the natural world.
Contents
Alphabetical list of contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Confucius, 479-551 BCE
Yue Zhuang
Buddha, fifth century bce
Purushottama Bilimoria
Zhuangzi, c.370-c.286 bce
David E. Cooper
Aristotle, 384–322 bce
David E. Cooper
Virgil, 70–19 bce
Philip R. Hardie
Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/2–1226
Andrew Linzey and Ara Barsam
Wang Yang-ming, 1472–1528
T. Yamauchi
Michel de Montaigne, 1533–92
Ann Moss
Francis Bacon, 1561–1626
Paul S. MacDonald
Benedict Spinoza, 1632–77
Paul S. MacDonald
Bashō, 1644–94
David J. Mossley
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712–78
Paul S. MacDonald
Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
Emily Brady
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749–1832
Colin Riordan
Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859
Nicolaas A. Rupke
William Wordsworth, 1770–1850
W. John Coletta
John Clare, 1793–1864
W John Coletta
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–82
Holmes Rolston III
Charles Darwin, 1809–82
Alan Holland
Henry David Thoreau, 1817–62
Laura Dassow Walls
Karl Marx, 1818–83
Richard Smith
John Ruskin, 1819–1900
Richard Smith
Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822–1903
R. Terry Schnadelbach
John Muir, 1838–1914
Peter Blaze Corcoran
Anna Botsford Comstock, 1854–1930
Peter Blaze Corcoran
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861–1941
Kalyan Sen Gupta
Black Elk, 1862–1950
J. Baird Callicott
Jacob von Uexküll, 1864-1944
Carlo Brentari
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867–1959
Robert McCarter
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869–1948
Purushottama Bilimoria
Albert Schweitzer, 1875–1965
Ara Barsam and Andrew Linzey
Aldo Leopold, 1887–1948
J. Baird Callicott
Robinson Jeffers, 1887–1962
Michael McDowell
Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976
Simon P. James
Eve Balfour, 1898-1990
Erin Gill
Rachel Carson, 1907–64
Peter Blaze Corcoran
Lynn White, Jr, 1907–87
Michael P. Nelson
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1908-61
Bryan E. Bannon
E.F. Schumacher, 1911–77
Satish Kumar
John Cage, 1912-92
Peter Jaeger
Arne Naess, 1912–2009
David E. Cooper
John Passmore, 1914–2004
David E. Cooper
Judith Wright, 1915-2000
Nicholas Birns
Barry Commoner, 1917-2012
Peter Dreier
James Lovelock, 1919-
Michael Allaby
Mary Midgley, 1919-
Elizabeth McKinnell
Murray Bookchin, 1921–2006
John Barry
Thich Nhat Hanh, 1926-
Elli Weisbaum
Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929–
Phillip J. Gates
Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-
Paul C. Adams
Paul Ehrlich, 1932–
Ian G Simmons
Holmes Rolston III, 1932–
Jack Weir
Seyyed Hossein Nasr 1933-
Sarah Robinson-Bertoni
Wendell Berry, 1934-
Jason Peters
Jane Goodall, 1934-
Marc Bekoff
Rudolf Bahro, 1935–97
John Barry
Roderick Nash, 1939-
Gregory Graves
Val Plumwood, 1939–2008
Nicholas Griffin
Patriarch Bartholomew, 1940-
John Chryssavgis and Frederick W. Krueger
Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011
Mia MacDonald
J. Baird Callicott, 1941–
Michael P. Nelson
Bob Hunter, 1941-2005
Thomas E. Hart
Susan Griffin, 1943–
Cheryll Glotfelty
Chico Mendes, 1944–88
Joy A. Palmer Cooper
Barry Lopez, 1945-
Diane Warner
Peter Singer, 1946–
Paula Casal
Al Gore, 1948-
Thomas E. Hart
Vandana Shiva, 1952–
Lynette J. Dumble
Bill McKibben, 1960-
Thomas E. Hart
Pavan Sukhdev, 1960-
Paul Knights and Stijn Neuteleers
Biography
Joy A. Palmer Cooper was formerly Professor of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Durham University. She is a Vice-President and former National Chair of the National Association for Environmental Education, Chairman of Trustees of the UK Charity Project Sri Lanka and a Trustee of the British and Foreign School Society. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on environmental issues and environmental education.
David E. Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and Secretary of the UK Charity Project Sri Lanka. He has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the USA, Canada, Malta, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Germany. He is the author of many books, including ones in the field of environmental philosophy.
