Human-Environment Relations

This book offers a revolutionary new understanding of the boundaries between self and environment, showing how external environments transform human values and identifying ways in which values located in self and society are transferred to the environment.

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.

Introduction. - PART I: TRANSFORMATIVE VALUES IN THEORY. - 1. The Value Space of Meaningful Relations. - 2. Relational Space and Places of Value. - 3. Conserving Nature s Meanings. - 4. Revaluing Body and Earth. - 5. Hölderlin and Human-Nature Relations. - 6. Toward History and the Creaturely: Language and the Intertextual Literary Value Space in Jonathan Safran Foer s Eating Animals. - 7. The Intimacy of Art and Nature. - PART II: TRANSFORMATIVE VALUES IN PRACTICE. - 8. Embodying Climate Change: Renarrating Energy through the Senses and the Spirit. - 9. Make, Do, and Mend: Solving Placelessness through Embodied Environmental Engagement. - 10. Art and Living Things: The Ethical, Aesthetic Impulse. - 11. The Embodiment of Nature: Fishing, Emotion and the Politics of Environmental Values. - 12. Ethics and Aesthetics of Environmental Engagement. - Index.