The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness

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notes Introduction: From Environmentalism to Consciousness 1. See www.lehigh.edu/~inbios/news/evolution.htm. 2. “Reading with Selection in Mind,” review of The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative, by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson , eds. Science 311 (February 3, 2006): 612–13. 3. See chapters 13 and 15 for accounts of both Alan Sokal’s “hoax” and E. O. Wilson’s use of “consilience” to reconcile the humanities with the sciences. 4. Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity, a project of the National Humanities Center. http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/news/?page_id=4. Chapter Two: On Being Polluted 1. It’s worth adding thirty years later that electronic air cleaners are incapable of removing gases (such as sulfur dioxide), and at best can reduce particulates inside the rooms of one’s house. 2. With apologies to Emily Dickinson. 3. Since this was written, throwaway filters capable of catching very small particles are now commonplace for home furnaces and air handlers, replacing the crude woven fiberglass filters that used to be the norm. Chapter Three: From Transcendence to Obsolescence 1. A. This phrase comes from Wordsworth’s sonnet “To Toussaint L’Ouverture ” (1802). It was later used as the title of a celebrated book by the classicist Gilbert Highet (1954), but even before that as the title of a book by R. W. Chambers in 1939. I make use of it several times in this book. Chapter Five: Ecocriticism’s Genesis 1. Iowa Review 9.1 (Winter 1978): 71–86. More easily accessed in Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, eds., The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 105–23. 279 2. Michael P. Branch and Scott Slovic, eds., The ISLE Reader (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003), xvi. 3. Lawrence Buell, The Future of Environmental Criticism (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005), 1. Buell’s first chapter provides a general overview of the development of ecocriticism. The bibliography is wide-ranging. Chapter Six: Ecology and Ideology 1. Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (New York: Harmony Books, 1999); Murray Bookchin, Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future (Boston: South End Press, 1990); Steve Chase, ed., Defending the Earth: A Dialogue between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman (Boston: South End Press, 1991). 2. Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 3rd ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982), 129. 3. Bookchin died on July 30, 2006. Chapter Seven: Aldo Leopold 1. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), vii. 2. Roderick Frazier Nash, The Rights of Nature (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), 205. 3. Bill Devall and George Sessions, Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered (Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1985). 4. Daniel B. Botkin, Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the TwentyFirst Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 62. 5. Eugene C. Hargrove and J. Baird Callicott, “Leopold’s ‘Means and Ends in Wild Life Management,’” Environmental Ethics 12 (Winter 1990): 336. Chapter Eight: Postmodern Ecologizing 1. Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing , and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995). Chapter Nine: The “Environment” Is Us 1. Steve Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd, Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge (New York: New York University Press, 1997). 280 Notes to Pages 60–96 2. Marian R. Chertow and Daniel C. Esty, eds., Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997). 3. Peter C. van Wyck, Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997). Chapter Eleven: Full Stomach Wilderness and the Suburban Esthetic 1. William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), 69–90. Chapter Twelve: Coetzee’s Postmodern Animals 1. J. M. Coetzee, “What Is Realism?” Salmagundi 114–15 (Summer 1997): 70–71. 2. J. M. Coetzee, Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, ed. David Atwell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), 52–53. 3. J. M. Coetzee, “What Is Realism?” 83, 101. 4. Doubling the Point, 63, 205. 5. J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K (New York: Viking Press, 1983), 163, 164, 166. 6. J. M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), 21. 7. Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, 2nd ed. (New York...