A Kind of Pantheism Charles Harrison provides an invaluable study of

provides an invaluable study of this fascinating period in human intellectual development

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the book pulls together many diverse threads from research across the world

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A Kind of Pantheism Charles Harrison provides an invaluable study ofA Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals. This ethic required a pantheistic cosmology to be coherent, however. As science progressed, with developments in evolutionary biology and ecology, the paths of environmental ethics