Biographical note:
RICHARD J. BORDEN holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology at College of the Atlantic, where he teaches. An editor and coauthor of numerous books and articles, Borden has been a United States Information Agency academic specialist and consultant in the area of human ecology, and has served as an advisor to human ecology programs in China, Russia, Europe, and North and South America. The author lives in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Country of final manufacture:
US
Main description:
Woven together as a philosophical and narrative memoir based on a lifetime of interdisciplinary inquiry, Ecology and Experience is a playful, engaging overview of the history of human ecology, showing how the field's philosophy and institutions have changed over time. Offering a wide range of themes and approaches, author Richard J. Borden explores the multiple intersections between human culture and ecology, and extends an open invitation to us, beseeching us to exercise our capacities for ecological insight, deepen the experience of being alive, and enrich our lives completely.
Contents
Foreword by Darron Collins, president of the College of the Atlantic
Preface
Part I. Transects and Plots
1. The Arc of Life
2. Ecology
3. Experience
4. Human Ecology
5. Education
Part II. Facets of Life
6. Time and Space
7. Death in Life
8. Personal Ecology
9. Context
10. Metaphor and Meaning
Part III. Wider Points of View
11. Kinds of Minds
12. Insight
13. Imagination
14. Keyholes
15. Ecology and Identity
16. The Unfinished Course
Part IV. Coda
