Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-2579-5 • Paperback • February 2005 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
978-0-7425-7848-7 • eBook • January 2005 • $46.50 • (£36.00)
Deane Curtin is professor of philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. He has also published articles and books on many subjects, including ecological citizenship, Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, and Gandhi's philosophy of community development. In recent years he has spoken and taught in Israel, India, Japan, England, Morocco, and Italy.
Chapter 1 One World under God
Chapter 2 Lord Greystoke's Legacy
Chapter 3 Frankenstein or Tarzan?
Chapter 4 What Population Problem?
Chapter 5 Gandhi's Vision of Community Development
Chapter 6 The Third World in the First World
Chapter 7 Clean Clothes/Clean Conscience
Chapter 8 Don't Touch the Rocks!
Chapter 9 Aldo Leopold's Vision
A clear articulation and synthesis of emerging themes within environmental ethics, bioethics, ecofeminism, and globalization studies....Curtin's work serves as an excellent segue between many of these fields while reminding us of the important role of history within ethics....
— Megan Wade Antieau
Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World by Deane Curtin opens a discussion that is timely and relevant to contemporary environmentalism. This book avoids the trap of narrowly defined environmentalism by linking environmentalism to progressiveideals, while maintaining that an ethic that marries environmental and social justice claims does not weaken both....
— Dustin Mulvaney
Curtin's discussion of Tarzan alone makes this book worthwhile for courses in environmental studies, and in sociology, literature, or philosophy courses with an environmental emphasis.....
— M. C. E. Peterson