Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics - Paperback

by Forrest Clingerman (Editor), Brian Treanor (Author), Martin Drenthen (Author)

Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns "wilderness" and "nature" among them are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity tom, history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

Author Biography

Forrest Clingerman is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Ohio Northern University.