The nature of being human : from environmentalism to consciousness / Harold Fromm.
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. From Environmentalism to Consciousness""; ""PART ONE: ECOLOGY""; ""1 Awakening to the “Environment�""; ""2 On Being Polluted""; ""3 From Transcendence to Obsolescence: A Route Map""; ""4 Air and Being: The Psychedelics of Pollution""; ""5 Ecocriticism�s Genesis""; ""6 Ecology and Ideology""; ""7 Aldo Leopold: Esthetic “Anthropocentrist�""; ""8 Postmodern Ecologizing: Circumference without a Center""; ""9 The “Environment� Is Us""; ""10 Ecology and Ecstasy on Interstate 80""
- ""11 Full Stomach Wilderness and the Suburban Esthetic""""12 Coetzee�s Postmodern Animals""; ""PART TWO: “NATURE� AND EVOLUTION""; ""13 My Science Wars""; ""14 O, Paglia Mia!""; ""15 A Crucifix for Dracula: Wendell Berry Meets Edward O. Wilson""; ""16 The New Darwinism in the Humanities""; ""17 Ecocriticism�s Big Bang""; ""18 Overcoming the Oversoul: Emerson�s Evolutionary Existentialism""; ""19 Back to Bacteria: Richard Dawkins� Fabulous Bestiary""; ""PART THREE: CONSCIOUSNESS""; ""20 Muses, Spooks, Neurons, and the Rhetoric of “Freedom�""; ""21 John Searle and His Ghosts""
- ""22 Daniel Dennett and the Brick Wall of Consciousness""""23 The Crumbling Mortar of Social Construction""; ""Conclusion. My Life as a Robot""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""