About the Book: Environment Preservation: A Philosophical Critique
In an integrated and comprehensive framework, EnvironmentPreservation: A
Philosophical Critique takes a critical look at theincreasing literatures and
specific attempts at environmentalpreservation. The "dominant" ethical
understanding and itspreservation strategy, according to the author, is
erroneous initself to serve us with a more evaluative ethics to the
presentenvironmental crisis because its idea of "Nature" itself can alsotend to
be limited. The author turns away, therefore, from the solewestern
anthropocentric polemic and explores the traditional tribalunderstanding of the
close correlation between man and hisenvironment for a new dialogue in
philosophy. The book will beimperative both to students at various undergraduate
andpost-graduate levels as