The Other in A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold’s Animals and His Wild-Animal Ethic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11266646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Baird Callicott (University of North Texas), Jonathan Parker (0000-0002-3817-4781, University of North Texas), Jordan Batson (University of North Texas), Nathan Bell (0000-0002-9569-8311), Nathan M Bell (University of North Texas), Keith Brown (0000-0001-6836-1572, University of North Texas), Samantha Moss (0000-0001-7612-8228, University of North Texas) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115-146 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4275 • E-ISSN: 2153-7895 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/enviroethics201133217 |
| OpenAlex | W2057679824 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Much philosophical attention has been devoted to “The Land Ethic,” especially by Anglo-American philosophers, but little has been paid to A Sand County Almanac as a whole. Read through the lens of continental philosophy, A Sand County Almanac promulgates an evolutionary-ecological world view and effects a personal self- and a species-specific Self-transformation in its audience. It’s author, Aldo Leopold, realizes these aims through descriptive reflection that has something in common with phenomenology-although Leopold was by no stretch of the imagination a phenomenologist. Consideration of human-animal intersubjectivity, thematized in A Sand County Almanac, brings to light the moral problem of hunting and killing animal subjects. Leopold does not confront that problem, but it is confronted and resolved by Jose Ortega y Gassett, Henry Beston, and Paul Shepard in terms of an appropriate human relationship with wild-animal Others. Comparison with the genuinely Other-based Leopold-Ortega-Beston-Shepard wild-animal ethic shows the purportedly Other-based human and possibly animal ethic of Emmanuel Levinas actually to be Same-based after all
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Intersubjectivity · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |