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Elemental philosophy: earth, air, fire, and water as environmental ideas

โœ Scribed by David Macauley

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
450
Category
Library
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โœฆ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Preface (page xi)
Acknowledgments (page xv)
Introduction (page 1)
Part I: Elemental Encounters and Ideas (page 11)
Chapter 1. Philosophy's Forgotten Four (page 13)
Interstice: Stone (page 51)
Chapter 2. The Topology of the Elemental Environment (page 59)
Interstice: Wood (page 93)
Part II: Elemental Theories (page 101)
Chapter 3. The Flowering of Ecological Roots: Empedocles' Elemental Thought (page 103)
Interstice: Ice and Snow (page 137)
Chapter 4. Plato's Chora-graphy of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water (page 143)
Interstice: Cloud (page 173)
Chapter 5. The Place of the Elements and the Elements of Place: Aristotle's Natural Household (page 179)
Interstice: Heat and Cold (page 201)
Chapter 6. The Economy and Ecology of the Aristotelian Elements (page 209)
Interstice: Light and Shadow (page 243)
Part III: Elemental Worlds (page 253)
Chapter 7. Domestication of the Elements (page 255)
Interstice: Night (page 283)
Chapter 8. In Touch With the Sensuous World: The Reclamation of the Elemental in Continental Philosophy (page 293)
Interstice: Space (page 327)
Chapter 9. Revaluing Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Elemental Beauty, Ecological Duty, and Environmental Policy (page 333)
Notes (page 357)
Index (page 419)

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