Main entry:

Oelschlaeger, Max.

Title & Author:

The idea of wilderness : from prehistory to the age of ecology / Max Oelschlaeger.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991.

Description:

xii, 477 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-459) and index.
The idea of wilderness : from paleolithic to neolithic culture -- Ancient Mediterranean ideas of humankind and nature : the passage from myth to history -- The alchemy of modernism : the transmutation of wilderness into nature -- Wild nature : critical responses to modernism -- Henry David Thoreau : philosopher of the wilderness -- John Muir : wilderness sage -- Aldo Leopold and the age of ecology -- The idea of wilderness in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder -- Contemporary wilderness philosophy : from resourcism to deep ecology -- Cosmos and wilderness : a postmodern wilderness philosophy.

Summary:

"How has the concept of wild nature changed over the millennia? And what have been the environmental consequences? In a wide-ranging work of intellectual history, Max Oelschlaeger presents a stimulating new examination of humankind's relationship with the natural world through the ages-from early totemism through Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and Judeo-Christian supernaturalism to the rise of materialism and modernism." -- Publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300048513
9780300048513
0300053703
9780300053708

Subject:

Human ecology Philosophy.
Wilderness areas.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Philosophy of nature.
Écologie humaine Philosophie.
Réserves de la vie sauvage.
Homme Influence sur la nature.
Philosophie de la nature.
wilderness areas.
Natuur.
Mensen.
Human influence on nature.
Ecology

Holdings:

Location: Library main 65396
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:91-B2352
Status: Available