Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-459) and index.
Contents
The idea of wilderness: from paleolithic to neolithic culture -- Ancient Mediterranean ideas of humankind and nature: the passage from myth to history -- The alchemy of modernism: the transmutation of wilderness into nature -- Wild nature: critical responses to modernism -- Henry David Thoreau: philosopher of the wilderness -- John Muir: wilderness sage --Aldo Leopold and the age of ecology -- The idea of wilderness in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder --Contemporary wilderness philosophy: from resourcism to deep ecology --Cosmos and wilderness: a postmodern wilderness philosophy.