Ecology and Experience

Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Ecology, Environmental Conservation & Protection
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Author: Richard J. Borden ISBN: 9781583947852
Publisher: North Atlantic Books Publication: April 15, 2014
Imprint: North Atlantic Books Language: English
Author: Richard J. Borden
ISBN: 9781583947852
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication: April 15, 2014
Imprint: North Atlantic Books
Language: English

A philosophical and narrative memoir, Ecology and Experience is a thoughtful, engaging recounting of author Richard J. Borden’s life entwined in an overview of the intellectual and institutional history of human ecology—a story of life wrapped in a life story.

Borden shows that attempts to bridge the mental and environmental arenas are uncertain, but that rigid conventions and narrow views have their dangers too. Human experience and the natural world exist on many levels and gathering from both realms gives rise to novel constellations. In a blend of themes and approaches based on a lifetime of interdisciplinary inquiry, the author wanders these intersections and invites us to exercise our capacities for ecological insight, to deepen the experience of being alive, and, most of all, to more fully enrich our lives.

Contents
Foreword by Darron Collins, president of the College of the Atlantic
Preface
Part I. Transects and Plots

  1. The Arc of Life
  2. Ecology
  3. Experience
  4. Human Ecology
  5. Education
    Part II. Facets of Life
  6. Time and Space
  7. Death in Life
  8. Personal Ecology
  9. Context
  10. Metaphor and Meaning
    Part III. Wider Points of View
  11. Kinds of Minds
  12. Insight
  13. Imagination
  14. Keyholes
  15. Ecology and Identity
  16. The Unfinished Course
    Part IV. Coda
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A philosophical and narrative memoir, Ecology and Experience is a thoughtful, engaging recounting of author Richard J. Borden’s life entwined in an overview of the intellectual and institutional history of human ecology—a story of life wrapped in a life story.

Borden shows that attempts to bridge the mental and environmental arenas are uncertain, but that rigid conventions and narrow views have their dangers too. Human experience and the natural world exist on many levels and gathering from both realms gives rise to novel constellations. In a blend of themes and approaches based on a lifetime of interdisciplinary inquiry, the author wanders these intersections and invites us to exercise our capacities for ecological insight, to deepen the experience of being alive, and, most of all, to more fully enrich our lives.

Contents
Foreword by Darron Collins, president of the College of the Atlantic
Preface
Part I. Transects and Plots

  1. The Arc of Life
  2. Ecology
  3. Experience
  4. Human Ecology
  5. Education
    Part II. Facets of Life
  6. Time and Space
  7. Death in Life
  8. Personal Ecology
  9. Context
  10. Metaphor and Meaning
    Part III. Wider Points of View
  11. Kinds of Minds
  12. Insight
  13. Imagination
  14. Keyholes
  15. Ecology and Identity
  16. The Unfinished Course
    Part IV. Coda

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