Ecology and Justice - Citizenship in Biotic Communities

Foreword; Deen Chatterjee.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- about the author.- PART I: The History of Ecology.- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Idea of Ecology.- Chapter 2. Ecological Thinking in the Western Tradition.- PART II: The Metaphysics of Ecology.- Chapter 3. Entities in Patterned Process.- Chapter 4. Patterned Process in Biological Evolution.- Chapter 5. Reductionism, Holism, and Hierarchy Theory.- PART III: The Epistemology of Ecology.- Chapter 6. Realism or Relativism?.- Chapter 7. From Empiricism and Rationalism to Kant and Nietzsche.- PART IV: The Normativity of Ecology.- Chapter 8. Ethics of Ecology.- Chapter 9. Political Economy of Ecology.- Chapter 10. Beauty, Bioempathy, and Ecological Ethics; Kirk Robinson.