| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.3

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Book Review

Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. Edited by Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. vi + 357 pp. Notes, list of contributors, index. Cloth $60.00, paper $24.95.

Both environmental history and environmental planning are centrally concerned with the enterprise of environmental philosophy—in building moral and ethical foundations to our consideration of the world, and in innovating novel and telling frames of reference for it—and so this book is at least a welcome addition to the field. However, and as caution, it is clearly oriented toward the enterprise of advancing the cause of post-Kantian Continental philosophers—Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans-Georg Gaddamer, and Jacques Derrida, for instance, and in the traditions of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, structuralism, poststructuralism and postmodernism, deconstruction, and critical theory. Of course, the root project of postmodernism, which is to innovate ways of knowing complexity from within the limits of human cognition, is well established. But still, the Continental turn remains an acquired taste, perhaps more suited to the pursuit of evocative or contemplative literary depiction.

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