Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics

365 As suggested by both the introduction and the individual chapters of this volume, environmental hermeneutics continues to evolve. The works of environmental hermeneutics presented here are, in fact, based on works that have been discussed and debated in environmental philosophy for years—if not decades. To fully appreciate the emergence of environmental hermeneutics as a self-conscious dialogue, then, it is important to note some of the earlier work that has been done. Obviously, environmental hermeneutics attempts to address the early issues of environmental ethics and philosophy, including the works of seminal figures such as Aldo Leopold and John Muir, as well as more recent philosophers. But there is also a small, growing literature that is explicitly hermeneutical in its orientation. This bibliography includes only items that are directly relevant to philosophical hermeneutics and environmental thought. It also concentrates on English language works. Certainly a larger bibliography could include works that are influential but not directly addressed to the topic, such as Sand County Almanac or Truth and Method. Thus, while it makes no claims to being exhaustive, the editors do hope that this initial bibliography presents an opportunity to further explore the emerging field of environmental hermeneutics. Ablett, Phillip G., and Pamela K. Dyer. “Heritage and Hermeneutics: Towards a Broader Interpretation of Interpretation.” Current Issues in Tourism 12 (2009): 209–233. Balabanski, V. S. “Ecological Hermeneutics as a Daughter of Feminism: Reflections on the Earth Bible Project.” Women-Church 40 (2007): 145–149. A Bibliographic Overview of Research in Environmental Hermeneutics 366 A Bibliographic Overview Bell, Nathan, M. The Green Horizon: An (Environmental) Hermeneutics of Identification with Nature through Literature. Master’s thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. Beringer, Almut. The Moral Ideals of Care and Respect: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Adolescents’ Environmental Ethics and Moral Functioning (Akademische Hochschulschriften Reihe XX, Philosophie). Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 1994. Buitendag, Johan. “Nature as Creation from an Eco-Hermeneutical Perspective: From a ‘Natural Theology’ to a ‘Theology of Nature. ’” Herv. teol. stud. 65 (2009): 1–10. Cameron, W. S. K (Scott). “Can Cities be both Natural and Successful? Reflections Grounding Two Apparently Oxymoronic Aspirations.” In The Natural City: Re-Envisioning the Built Environment, edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper, 36–49. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. ———. “Socrates outside Athens: Plato, the Phaedrus, and the Possibility of ‘Dialogue’ with Nature.” In Phenomenology 2010, Volume 5: Selected Essays from North America, Part 2, edited by Lester Embree, Michael Barber, and Thomas J. Nenon, 40–65. Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2010. ———. “Tapping Habermas’s Discourse Theory for Environmental Ethics.” Environmental Ethics 31 (Winter 2009): 339–357. ———. “Wilderness in the City: Not Such a Long Drive after All.” Environmental Philosophy 3/2 (2006): 28–33. Clingerman, Forrest. “Beyond the Flowers and the Stones: ‘Emplacement’ and the Modeling of Nature.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 11 (2004): 17–24. ———. “Environmental Amnesia or the Memory of Place? The Need for Local Ethics of Memory in a Philosophical Theology of Place.” Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere, edited by Celia Deane-Drummond and Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, 141–159. New York: T. & T. Clark, 2011. ———. “From Artwork to Place: Finding the Voices of Moreelse, Bacon and Beuys at the Hermeneutical Intersection of Culture and Nature.” Environmental Philosophy 8 (2011): 1–24. ———. “Interpreting Heaven and Earth: The Theological Construction of Nature, Place, and the Built Environment.” In Nature, Space and the Sacred, edited by Sigurd Bergmann, Peter Scott, Heinrich Bedford Strohm, and Maria Jansdotter, 45–54. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. ———. “The Intimate Distance of Herons: Theological Travels through Nature, Place, and Migration.” Ethics, Place & Environment 11 (2008): 313–325. ———. “Reading the Book of Nature: A Hermeneutical Account of Nature for Philosophical Theology.” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 13 (2009): 72–91. Research in Environmental Hermeneutics 367 ———. “Wilderness as the Place between Philosophy and Theology: Questioning Martin Drenthen on the Otherness of Nature.” Environmental Values 19 (2010): 211–232. Coolen, Maarten. “Toward a Hermeneutics of Nature: On the Necessity of Enduring Distance.” In Ecology, Technology and Culture, edited by Wim Zweers and Jan J. Boersema, 118–126. Cambridge, UK: The White Horse Press, 1994. Coronel, D. A., J. M. Alves da Silva, and A. Leonardi. “Hermeneutical and Philosophical Consideration about Ethics and Sustainable Development .” Global Journal of Human Social Studies 10/2 (2010): 30–37. Cronon, William. “A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative.” Journal of American...