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Introduction to Eco-Phenomenology
EFB 796 /EFB 797 (Course# 11555)
1 Credit Hour

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Pre-Semester Reading:

•  Heidegger, M. (1954) “Lecture I” in What Is Called Thinking. (J. Glenn Gray Trans.)  New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Primary Reading:

Salon I: (Sections designated by instructor)

•  Heidegger, M.  Being and Time. (J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.)  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1965.
•  Husserl, E. (1913) Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy.  Norwell: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1983. 
•  Plato. (1945)  “Evidence and the Beautiful” in The Republic of Plato.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
•  Sokolowski, R.  Introduction to Phenomenology.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Salon II: (Sections designated by instructor)

•  Brown, C. & Toadvine, T.  (2000). Eco-Phenomenology An Introduction.  In Eco-Phenomenology, (T. Toadvine & C.S. Brown, Eds.). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. pp. ix – xxi.
• Frodeman, R. (2003). Philosophy in the Field.  In Rethinking Nature, (B.V. Foltz & R. Frodeman, Eds.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.  pp. 149 – 164.
• Kirkman, R. (2003).  Beyond Doubt: Environmental Philosophy and the Human Predicament.  In Rethinking Nature, (B.V. Foltz & R. Frodeman, Eds.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.  pp. 165 – 179.

Journal:

•  Environmental Philosophy, Journal of the International Association for University Oregon

Contextual Reading:

•  Abram, David. "Merleau-Ponty> and the Voice of the Earth." Environmental Ethics 10, no. 2 (Summer 1988): 101-20.
•  Berleant, Arnold. Living in the Landscape: Toward an Aesthetics of Environment. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.
•  Casey, Edward S. Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
•  Colony, Tracy. "Dwelling in the Biosphere? Heidegger's Critique of Humanism and Its Relevance for Ecological Thought." International Studies in Philosophy 31, no. 1 (1999): 37-45.
•  Derridas, J. The Margins of Philosophy.  (Incomplete citation)
•  "The Non-Worldly Grounding of Environmentalism." Pondicherry University Journal of Social Science and Humanities 1 (2000).
•  Everden, Neil. The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.
•  Foltz, Bruce V. Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Nature. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1995
•  Merleau-Ponty, M. The Primacy of Perception.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964.
•  Toadvine, T. (2003).  The Primacy of Desire and Its Ecological Consequences.  In Eco-Phenomenology, (T. >Toadvine & C.S. Brown, Eds.). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. pp. 139 – 154.
•  Wood, D. (2000). What is Eco-Phenomenology.  In Eco-Phenomenology, (T. Toadvine & C.S. Brown, Eds.). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. pp. 211 – 233.
  

Recommended Reading:

• Holler, Linda D. "In Search of a Whole-System Ethic." Journal of Religious Ethics 12 (1984): 219-239.
• Jonas, Hans. The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
• Idea and Experience: Husserl's Project of Phenomenology in c Ideen. Chicago: University of Chgicago Press, 1982; 2d. ed., 1985.
• "Varieties of Ecological Experience."
• Naess, Arne. Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Sanders, John T. "Affordance: An Ecological Approach to First Philosophy." In Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture, ed. Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber. New York: Routledge, 1999.
• Toadvine, Ted. "Ecophenomenology in the New Millenium." In The Reach of Reflection: Issues for Phenomenology's Second Century, edited by Stephen Galt Crowell and Lester Embree. Boca Raton: Center For Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc., 2001.
• Zimmerman, M. E., (2004). What Can Continental Philosophy Contribute to Environmentalism? In Rethinking Nature, (B.V. Foltz & R. Frodeman, Eds.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.  pp. 207 – 230.