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Buddha, fifth century BCE / Purushottama Bilimoria -- Chuang Tzu, fourth century BCE ; Aristotle, 384-322 BCE / David E. Cooper -- Virgil, 70-19 BCE / Philip R. Hardie -- Saint Francis of Assisi, 1182 2-1226 / Andrew Linzery and Ara Barsam -- Wang Yang-ming, 1472-1528 / T. Yamauchi -- Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92 / Ann Moss -- Francis Bacon, 1561-1626 ; Benedict Spinoza, 1632-77 / Paul S. MacDonald -- Basho, 1644-94 / David J. Mossley -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-78 / Paul S. MacDonald -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832 / Colin Riordan -- Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766-1835 / John I. Clarke -- William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 ; John Clare, 1793-1864 / W. John Coletta -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-82 / Holmes Rolston III -- Charles Darwin, 1809-82 / Janet Browne -- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-62 / Laura Dassow Walls -- Karl Marx, 1818-83 ; John Ruskin, 1819-1900 / Richard Smith -- Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822-1903 / R. Terry Schnadelbach -- John Muir, 1838-1914 ; Anna Botsford Comstock, 1854-1930 / Peter Blaze Corcoran -- Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 / Kalyan Sen Gupta -- Black Elk, 1862-1950 / J. Baird Callicot -- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959 / Robert McCarter -- Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948 / Purushottama Bilimoria -- Algert Schweitzer, 1875-1965 / Ara Barsam and Andrew Linzey -- Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948 / J. Baird Callicott -- Bobinson Jeffers, 1887-1962 / Michael McDowell -- Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976 / Simon P. James -- Rachel Carson, 1907-64 / Peter Blaze Corcoran -- Lynn White, Jr, 1907-87 / Michael P. Nelson -- E.F. Schumacher, 1911-77 / Satish Kumar -- Arne Naess, 1912- ; John Passmore, 1914- / David E. Cooper -- James Lovelock, 1919- / Michael Allaby -- Ian McHarg, 1920- / R. Terry Schnadelbach -- Murray Bookchin, 1921- / John Barry -- Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929- / Phillip J. Gates -- Paul Ehrlich, 1932- / Ian G. Simmons -- Holmes Rolston III, 1932- / Jack Weir -- Rudolf Bahro, 1935-97 / John Barry -- Gro Harlem Brundtland, 1939- / Joy A. Palmer -- Val Plumwood, 1939- / Nicholas Griffin -- J. Baird Callicot, 1941- / Michael P. Nelson -- Susan Griffin, 1943- / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Chico Mendes, 1944-88 / Joy A. Palmer -- Peter Singer, 1946- / Paula Casal -- Vandana Shiva, 1952- / Lynette J. Dumble. Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy Palmer has assembled a team of over twenty expert contributors to summarize and analyze the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the present. Among those included are philosophers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, activists such as Chico Mendes, literary giants such as Virgil, and major religious figures such as Gotama (The Buddha). |
