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- Voice for Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
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A Voice for Earth is a collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.
Part 1 of the book, "Imagination into Principle," comprises Steven C. Rockefeller's behind-the-scenes summary of how the language for the Earth Charter was drafted. In part 2, "Principle into Imagination," ten writers breathe life into its concepts with their own original work. Contributors include Rick Bass, Alison Hawthorne Deming, John Lane, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Scott Russell Sanders, Lauret Savoy, and Mary Evelyn Tucker. In part 3, "Imagination and Principle into a New Ethic," Leonardo Boff offers a new paradigm created through reflecting on the concept of care in the Earth Charter.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Foreword, The Rights of Nature
- pp. xi-xii
- Foreword, Taking the Globe to Our Bosom
- pp. xiii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. xix-xxx
- Imagination into Principle
- The Earth Charter
- pp. 24-34
- Principle into Imagination: Literary Responses to the Earth Charter
- Lake Conestee
- pp. 61-67
- Restoration: A Plan
- pp. 68-79
- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the Land
- pp. 80-89
- Broad Water, Distant Land
- pp. 92-106
- Possibility Begins Here
- pp. 107-112
- Hope for Democracy
- pp. 113-126
- Imagination and Principle into a New Ethic
- The Ethic of Care
- pp. 129-145
- Contributors
- pp. 149-157
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820342764
Related ISBN(s)
9780820331720
MARC Record
OCLC
759160186
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No