Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
Outline of an Ecosophy

Arne Naess (Author), David Rothenberg (Translated by)

9780521348737, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 October 1990

240 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.36 kg

'… this book is understandable even for the uninitiated, and practical for anyone wanting to reduce their adverse impacts on the Earth.' John Davis, Earth First! Journal

The basic thesis of the work is that environmental problems are only to be solved by people - people who will be required to make value judgements in conflicts that go beyond narrowly conceived human concerns. Thus people require not only an ethical system, but a way of conceiving the world and themselves such that the intrinsic value of life and nature is obvious, a system based on 'deep ecological principles'. The book encourages readers to identify their own series of such parameters - their own ecosophies. Ecology, Comunity and Lifestyle will appeal to philosophers, specialists working on environmental issues, and the more general reader who is interested in learning some of the foundational ideas of the rapidly expanding field of environmental philosophy.

Translator's preface
Introduction: ecosophy T - from intuition to system David Rothenberg
1. The environmental crisis and the deep ecological movement
2. From ecology to ecosophy
3. Fact and value: basic norms
4. Ecosophy, technology, and lifestyle
5. Economics within ecosophy
6. Ecopolitics within ecosophy
7. Ecosophy T: unity and diversity of life
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF], Bio-ethics [PSAD]