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  title info:
    title: Elemental philosophy
    sub title: earth, air, fire, and water as environmental ideas
  name:
    name part: Macauley, David.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 433 pages )
  abstract: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
  table of contents: Philosophy's forgotten four -- The topology of the elemental environment -- The flowering of ecological roots : Empedocles's elemental thought -- Plato's chora-graphy of earth, air, fire, and water -- The place of the elements of place : Aristotle's natural household -- The economy and ecology of the Aristotelian elements -- Domestication of the elements -- In touch with the sensuous world : the reclamation of the elemental in continental philosophy -- Revaluing earth, air, fire, and water : elemental beauty, ecological duty, and environmental policy.
  note: David Macauley.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Four elements (Philosophy)
  classification: BD581 .M25 2010
  classification: 113
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics
  identifier: 9781438432465
  identifier: 1438432461
  identifier: 9781438432458 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1438432453 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2010004835
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