"["Being Human"] is one of the few books that begins to integrate theological narratives with scientific ones, looking for a compelling correlation between them where modern and religious sensibilities might both be affirmed. This is a unique work."--Bron Taylor, Professor and Director of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and author of "Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism." ""Being Human" succeeds at accounting for people's conception of ...
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"["Being Human"] is one of the few books that begins to integrate theological narratives with scientific ones, looking for a compelling correlation between them where modern and religious sensibilities might both be affirmed. This is a unique work."--Bron Taylor, Professor and Director of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and author of "Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism." ""Being Human" succeeds at accounting for people's conception of humaness and human's relationship with nature--no easy task, but one that is a crucial starting point for any discussion of environmental ethics."--Kay Read, Associate Professor of Comparative Ethics and Native American Religions, DePaul University, and author of "Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos" "Anna Peterson's "Being Human" is a stellar work of integration. Peterson argues that the ideology of human exceptionalism and disconnection from the rest of nature is a major source of social and ecological harm. She draws together cultural constructionist, Asian, Native American, feminist and evolutionary thought to present a view of the human as both an integral part of nature and a creator of culture, called to develop an ethic of interrelationality for the sake of the wellbeing of the whole earth community."--Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett Theological Center, author of "Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing." "In the postmodern academic climate of slice-and-dice, take-no-prisoners 'analysis, ' and 'critical theory, ' Anna Peterson's book is a welcome breath of fresh air. She positions her discussion as a development of--rather than a deconstructive triumph over--earlier work in the field of environmental philosophy. Peterson takes up the themes that are absolutely central to the field--the nature of nature, human nature, and the appropriate relationship between the two. Her conclusions are well-informed, well-reasoned, reasonable, and last but not least, beautifully and engagingly expressed."--Baird Callicott, Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas, and author of "Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback" (California, 1997), "In Defense of the Land: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, " and "Beyond the Land Ethic: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy." "Peterson challenges us to think critically about the ideas about nature and humanity that shape our ethical behavior. She also brings into critical dialogue insights from a wide variety of religious traditions--Buddhist, Taoist, Navaho, Koyukon, Catholic and Protestant. Peterson helps us think creatively and critically about the task of comparative ethics, and the imperatives of environmental ethics. This book is a must-read for any one concerned with environmental ethics and with comparative ethics."--Sharon Welch, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and author of "A Feminist Ethic of Risk, Sweet Dreams in America: Making Ethics and Spirituality Work, " and "Communities of Resistance and Solidarity: A Feminist Theology of LIberation."
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Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, x, 289 pp. Contents: Not of the World: Human Exceptionalism in Western Tradition; The Social Construction of Nature & Human Nature; The Relational Self: Asian Views of Nature & Human Nature; Person & Nature in Native American Worldviews; Relationships, Stories & Feminist Ethics; Evolution, Ecology, &Ethics; In & Out of the World: Toward a Chastened Constructionist Anthropology; Different Natures.
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