Syllabus

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Books / Book chapters 

Garrard, Greg (2012) "Ecocriticism (The New Critical Idiom)", Routledge, London and New York

Latour, Bruno. 2017. Facing Gaia. Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime. Fourth Lecture: “The Anthropocene and the destruction of (the image of) the Globe.” Medford, MA: Polity Press. pp. 111-145. (Will be available in the Arne N?ss Library)

Mueller, Martin Lee. 2017. Being Salmon, Being Human. Chapter Thirteen: “Drawn Inside Geostory.” White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing. pp. 245-262 (excerpt). (Will be available in the Arne N?ss Library)

Naess, Arne (1983) "Ecology, Community and Lifestyle", Cambridge. pp. 1-32. (The book is available in the Arne N?ss Library at SUM)

Vetlesen, A. J. (2015) "The Denial of Nature - Environmental Philosophy in the Erea of Global Capitalism", Routledge (Introduction; Ch. 1; Ch. 2)

Weber, Andreas. 2016. The Biology of Wonder. Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science. Chapter 14: “Enlivenment: Ecological Morals as Mutuality in Beauty.” Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. pp. 343-357. (Will be available in the Arne N?ss Library)

Witoszek, Nina, (1997) "The Unromantic Romantics", in M. Teich and Roy Porter: "Nature and Society in Historical Context", Cambridge University Press, 209-227. (The book is available in the Arne N?ss Library at SUM)

Witoszek, N (2011) “Arne Naess’ Ecological Utopia” in "The Origins of the Regime of Goodness", Universitetsforlaget, pp.  212 -231. (The book is available in the Arne N?ss Library at SUM)

Online articles

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Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, Chapter 3; Book 2, Chapter 23.

Bj?rkdahl, Kristian. 2015. “Rapporten ingen har lest”, Prosa 1. (Optional reading)

Eliasson, P. and Nilsson, S. G. (2002) "You should hate young oaks and young noblemen': the environmental history of oaks in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Sweden", in Environmental history, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Oct., 2002), pp. 659-677

Gamlund, E. (2007) "Who Has Moral Status in the Environment? A Spinozistic Answer", The Trumpeter, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2007, pp 3-27

Harrington, A. (1995) “Metaphoric connections: holistic science in the shadow of the Third Reich”, Social Research. Vol. 62, 1995, pp. 357-375.

Klein, N. (2001) "Reclaiming the Commons", New Left Review, 9 (2001)

Moser, Susanne. 2010. “Communicating Climate Change: History, Challenges, Process and Future Directions", Climate Change, 1: 31-53

Norgaard, Kari. 2006. “People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit”: Emotions, Denial, and Social Movement Nonparticipation”, Sociological Inquiry, 76(3): 372-96

N?ss, A.  Deep Ecology Platform

O’Neill, J. (1992) "The Intrinsic Value of Nature", The Monist, Vol. 75, No. 2, 1992, pp. 119-137

Persson, E. (2012), “The Moral Status of Extraterrestrial Life”, Astrobiology, Vol. 12, No. 10, 2012, pp. 974-986

Quintilian, The Orator’s Education, 3.4.1-16

Rolston, H. (1994) “Value in Nature and the Nature of Value”, in Robin Attfield and Andrew Belsey, eds, Philosophy and the Natural Environment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 13-30

Schaeffer, John. D. 2004. “Commonplaces: Sensus Communis”, in Walter Jost & Wendy Olmsted (eds), A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism. Malden: Blackwell, pp. 278-292 (also available in Fronter)

Skogen, K. and Krange, O. (2003) "A Wolf at the Gate: The Anti-Carnivore Alliance and the Symbolic Construction of Community", Sociologia Ruralis, Vol 43, Number 3, July 2003

Syse, Karen Lykke (2010) "Expert Systems, Local Knowledge and Power in Argyll, Scotland",  in Landscape Research

Syse, Karen Lykke (2013) The Ebb and Flow of Trees and Farmland: Symbols of Nationhood in Scotland and Norway. In Journal of the North Atlantic ():219-228. 2013

Wetlesen, J. (1999) "The Moral Status of Beings Who Are not Persons: A Casuistic Argument", Environmental Values, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1999, pp. 287-323

Witoszek, N. and Anker, P. (1998) “The Dream of Biocentric Community and the Structure of Utopias” in Worldviews, 2 (1998), pp. 235-256.

Wynne, Brian. 2010. “Strange Weather, Again: Climate Science as Political Art”, Theory, Culture & Society, 27(2–3): 289-305

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