Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors CHARLES S. BROWN is Professor of Philosophy at Emporia State University . His essays have appeared in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology , Southwest Philosophical Review, Midwest Quarterly, and Dialogue and Universalism. Two of his essays, one on the dissident movement in postwar Poland, and the other on multiculturalism and the end of Western thinking, have been translated into Polish. He is a former treasurer of the International Society for Universal Dialogue. For four years, he was Director of Emporia State University’s Honors Program. He is currently completing a monograph on phenomenology and ecology. EDWARD S. CASEY is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook, having previously taught at Yale University. In addition to edited collections and numerous articles, his publications include the three-volume series Imagining, Remembering, and Getting Back into Place (Indiana University Press) and The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (University of California Press). Casey’s latest book, Representing Place: Landscape Paintings and Maps, has just been published by Minnesota University Press. His current project is entitled “The World at a Glance.” CHRISTIAN DIEHM is completing a dissertation on Levinas and environmental philosophy, “The Gravity of Nature: Other-than-Human Others in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas.” He teaches courses in environmental ethics and deep ecology at Villanova University, and his publications include “Facing Nature: Levinas beyond the Human” and “Arne Naess, Val Plumwood and Deep Ecological Subjectivity: A Contribution to the Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism Debate.” 235 LESTER EMBREE is William F. Dietrich Eminent Scholar in Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He has written, translated, and edited books and essays in constitutive phenomenology, philosophy of archeology, and environmental philosophy. IRENE J. KLAVER is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Ethiek rondom grote grazers and numerous articles in Dutch and English, including “Silent Wolves: The Howl of the Implicit” (in Wild Ideas, ed. D. Rothenberg, 1995) and “The Implicit Practice of Environmental Philosophy” (in Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Activism, ed. Marietta and Embree, 1995). Klaver is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy and serves on the Editorial Boards of Environmental Ethics and Terra Nova: Nature and Culture. Her current interests include the relations between environmental philosophy, phenomenology, aesthetics, and feminism. ERAZIM KOHÁK, Professor Emeritus in the philosophical faculty of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, born in Prague, 1933, received his doctorate from Yale University in 1958, taught at Gustavus Adolphus College and at Boston University before returning to Prague in 1991. His writings focus on issues in social and environmental philosophy from the perspective of Husserl’s phenomenology and include Idea and Experience, The Embers and the Stars, The Green Halo, as well as numerous other books and articles in both Czech and English. MONIKA LANGER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She has taught at the University of Toronto, Yale University, the University of Alberta, and Dalhousie University . Principal areas of interest include continental European philosophy , feminist philosophy, social/political issues, and philosophy of literature. She is the author of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception: A Guide and Commentary. Her articles have appeared in various books and in such journals as Philosophy Today, Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Teaching Philosophy, Thesis Eleven, and The Trumpeter. At present, she is writing a book on Nietzsche’s The Gay Science. JOHN LLEWELYN has, since first teaching philosophy at the University of New England, Australia, been Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis , and the Arthur J. Schmitt Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. Among his publications are Beyond 236 Notes on Contributors Metaphysics?, Derrida on the Threshold of Sense, The Middle Voice of Ecological Consciousness, Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics, The HypoCritical Imagination, and Appositions—of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. DON E. MARIETTA, JR., is Professor Emeritus at Florida Atlantic University, and formerly Adelaide R. Snyder Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He is author of For People and the Planet: Holism and Humanism in Environmental Ethics (Temple University Press), Philosophy of Sexuality (M. E. Sharpe), Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (M. E. Sharpe), and journal articles and book chapters, mostly on ethics, primarily environmental...