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Elemental Philosophy

By David Macauley

Elemental Philosophy

By David Macauley

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Explores the ancient and perennial notion of the four elements as environmental ideas.Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the four elements through the history of ideas, Macauley generates a new vocabulary for and a fresh vision of the environment while engaging the elemental world directly with reflections on their various manifestations.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
454
Release Date:
2011-07-02
Publication Date:
2011-07-02
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1438432445
ISBN13:
9781438432441
Weight:
732 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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