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Elemental philosophy : earth, air, fire, and water as environmental ideas
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ISBN: 1438432461 1441674136 9781441674135 9781438432465 9781438432458 1438432453 9781438432441 Year: 2010 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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"Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the four elements through the history of ideas, Macauley generates a new vocabulary for and a fresh vision of the environment while engaging the elemental world directly with reflections on their various manifestations."--BOOK JACKET.

Warm, kalt, flüssig und fest bei Aristoteles : die Elementarqualitäten in den zoologischen Schriften
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ISBN: 3515058265 9783515058261 Year: 1992 Volume: 57 Publisher: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner,


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Elemental ecocriticism : thinking with earth, air, water, and fire
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ISBN: 9780816693078 0816693072 9780816693092 0816693099 Year: 2015 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press

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For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered a mode of understanding materiality that did not center the cosmos around the human. Outgrown as a science, the elements are now what we build our houses against, and their renunciation has fostered only estrangement from the material world. Elemental Ecocriticism shows how elemental materiality precipitates new engagements with the ecological. Here the classical elements reveal the vitality of supposedly inert substances (mud, water, earth, air), chemical processes (fire), and natural phenomena, as well as the promise in the abandoned and the unreal (ether, phlogiston, spontaneous generation). Decentering the human, this collection of essays provides important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. Three response essays meditate on the connections of this collaborative project to the framing of modern-day ecological concerns. A renewed intimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamic environmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.

Les quatre éléments dans la culture médiévale : actes du colloque des 25, 26 et 27 mars 1982, Université de Picardie, Centre d'études médiévales
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ISBN: 3874526062 9783874526067 Year: 1983 Volume: 386 Publisher: Göppingen : Kümmerle Verlag,


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On the causes of the properties of the elements
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ISBN: 9780874622492 0874622492 Year: 2010 Volume: 46 Publisher: Milwaukee Marquette University Press

Aristotle's theory of material substance : heat and pneuma, form and soul
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ISBN: 0198238649 0198240937 9780198238645 0191679704 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,


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An environmental history of the middle ages : the crucible of nature
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ISBN: 9780415779463 9780415779456 9780203107690 9781136262982 9781136263026 9781136263033 0415779464 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxon Routledge

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Human ecology --- Nature --- Forests and forestry --- Animals --- Human-animal relationships --- History --- Effect of human beings on --- Europe --- Environmental conditions --- Social conditions --- Four elements (Philosophy) --- Middle Ages --- Ecologie humaine --- Homme --- Quatre éléments (Philosophie) --- Forêts et sylviculture --- Animaux --- Relations homme-animal --- Moyen Age --- Histoire --- Influence sur la nature --- Conditions environnementales --- Conditions sociales --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Zoology --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Elements, Four (Philosophy) --- Cosmology --- Matter --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Environmental conditions. --- Middle Ages. --- Geschiedenis --- Middeleeuwen --- Ecologie --- Natuur --- Klimaatswijziging --- Milieuverontreiniging --- Milieu --- Ecologische voetafdruk --- Sociaal-economische geschiedenis --- Klimaatverandering --- Gezondheidszorg --- Druktechniek --- Bouwsector --- Stadsvernieuwing --- Geneeskunde --- Techniek (wetenschap) --- Atlas --- Museum --- Human ecology - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Nature - Effect of human beings on - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Forests and forestry - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Animals - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Human-animal relationships - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Europe - Environmental conditions --- Europe - Social conditions - To 1492 --- Effets de l'homme --- Jusque 1500

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