Human-Environment Relations: Transformative Values in Theory and Practice

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This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between humans and the world around them in an ethical communicative zone called ‘value-space’. The contributors examine the transformative interplay between external environments and human values, and identify concrete ways in which these norms, residing in and derived from self and society, are projected onto the environment. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Value Space of Meaningful Relations....Pages 3-15 Relational Space and Places of Value....Pages 17-30 Conserving Nature’s Meanings....Pages 31-40 Revaluing Body and Earth....Pages 41-54 Hölderlin and Human-Nature Relations....Pages 55-67 Toward History and the Creaturely: Language and the Intertextual Literary Value Space in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals ....Pages 69-83 The Intimacy of Art and Nature....Pages 85-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Embodying Climate Change: Renarrating Energy Through the Senses and the Spirit....Pages 97-108 Make, Do, and Mend: Solving Placelessness Through Embodied Environmental Engagement....Pages 109-120 Art and Living Things: The Ethical, Aesthetic Impulse....Pages 121-133 The Embodiment of Nature: Fishing, Emotion, and the Politics of Environmental Values....Pages 135-147 Ethics and Aesthetics of Environmental Engagement....Pages 149-161 Back Matter....Pages 163-165