The Nature of Being Human : From Environmentalism to Consciousness.

Intro -- 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.

Philosophical, critical, often personal, Fromm's sweeping, interdisciplinary, and sometimes combative essays will change the way you think about your place in the environment.

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