Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment

Joy A. Palmer, David E. Cooper, David Cooper

Routledge, Sep 11, 2002 - Political Science - 321 pages

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.

Contents

• Buddha fifth century BCE: 1
• Chuang Tzu fourth century BCE: 7
• Aristotle 384322 BCE: 12
• Virgil 7019 BCE: 17
• Saint Francis of Assisi 118121226: 22
• Wang Yangming 14721528: 27
• Michel de Montaigne 153392: 33
• Francis Bacon 15611626: 38
• Benedict Spinoza 163277: 44
• Basho 164494: 51
• JeanJacques Rousseau 171278: 56
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 17491832: 63
• Thomas Robert Malthus 17661834: 69
• William Wordsworth 17701850: 74
• John Clare 17931864: 83
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 180382: 93
• Charles Darwin 180982: 100
• Henry David Thoreau 181762: 106
• Karl Marx 181883: 113
• John Ruskin 18191900: 118
• Frederick Law Olmsted 18221903: 122
• John Muir 18381914: 131
• Anna Botsford Comstock 18541930: 136
• Rabindranath Tagore 18611941: 143
• Black Elk 18621950: 147
• Frank Lloyd Wright 18671959: 154
• Mahatma Gandhi 18691948: 160
• Albert Schweitzer 18751965: 167
• Alda Leopold 18871948: 174
• Robinson Jeffers 18871962: 181
• Martin Heidegger 18891976: 189
• Rachel Carson 190764: 194
• Lynn White Jr 190787: 200
• EP Schumacher 191177: 205
• Arne Naess 1912: 211
• John Passmore 1914: 216
• James Lovelock 1919: 221
• Ian McHarg 1920: 228
• Murray Bookchin 1921: 241
• Edward Osborne Wilson 1929: 246
• Paul Ehrlich 1932: 252
• Holmes Rolston III 1932: 260
• Rudolf Bahro 19357: 269
• Gro Harlem Brundtland 1939: 274
• Val Plumwood 1939: 283
• J Baird Callicott 1941: 290
• Susan Griffin 1943: 295
• Chico Mendes 19448: 302
• Peter Singer 1946: 307
• Vandana Shiva 1952: 313

About the author

Joy A. Palmer

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment; Routledge Key Guides
• Editors: Joy A. Palmer, David E. Cooper, David Cooper
• Publisher: Routledge, 2002
• ISBN: 1134756240, 9781134756247
• Length: 321 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Science / Earth Sciences / Geography; Social Science / Human Geography