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The Literary Context of the Birth of Ecological Aesthetics

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In addition to the birth of ecological aesthetics sharing a relationship with the modern social economy and modern cultural philosophy, it is also very much intimately tied to the development of ecological literature.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Murphy et al. [1].

  2. 2.

    David Thoreau [2], p. 36.

  3. 3.

    David Thoreau [2], p. 10.

  4. 4.

    Ibid., p. 72.

  5. 5.

    Ibid., p. 12.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., p. 78.

  7. 7.

    Ibid., p. 80.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., p. 81.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., p. 169.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., p. 174.

  11. 11.

    David Thoreau [2], p. 106.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., 116.

  13. 13.

    Ibid., pp. 116–117.

  14. 14.

    Ibid., p. 123.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., pp. 122, 124.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., p. 87.

  17. 17.

    Ibid., p. 161.

  18. 18.

    David Thoreau [2], p. 87.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., p. 86.

  20. 20.

    Heidegger [3], p. 64.

  21. 21.

    Leopold [4], p. 156.

  22. 22.

    Ibid., p. 157.

  23. 23.

    Ibid., p. 43.

  24. 24.

    Ibid., p. 216.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., p. 193.

  26. 26.

    Leopold [4], p. 194.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., p. 209.

  28. 28.

    Ibid., p. 203

  29. 29.

    Ibid., p. 166.

  30. 30.

    Ibid., p. 123.

  31. 31.

    Leopold [4], pp. 123–124.

  32. 32.

    Ibid., pp. 21–22.

  33. 33.

    Gloverti [5], pp. 17–18.

  34. 34.

    Ruckert [6], p. 115.

  35. 35.

    Howers [7], p. 69.

  36. 36.

    Bury [8], p. 1.

  37. 37.

    Fromm [9], p. 38.

  38. 38.

    Leopold [4], p. 213.

  39. 39.

    Ruckert [6], p. 107.

  40. 40.

    White [10], p. 5.

  41. 41.

    Ibid., p. 5.

  42. 42.

    White [10], p. 230.

  43. 43.

    Bury [11], p. 1.

  44. 44.

    Love [12], p. 235.

  45. 45.

    Mick [13], p. 164.

  46. 46.

    Bury [11], pp. 7–8.

  47. 47.

    Bury [8], p. 1.

  48. 48.

    Ruckert [6], p. 120.

  49. 49.

    Ibid.

  50. 50.

    Ruckert [6], p. 107.

  51. 51.

    Love [12], p. 234.

  52. 52.

    McDowell [14], p. 372.

  53. 53.

    Merchant [15], p. 1.

  54. 54.

    Ibid., pp. 11–15.

  55. 55.

    Ibid., p. 2.

  56. 56.

    Merchant [15], pp. 6–10.

  57. 57.

    Ibid., p. 1.

  58. 58.

    Ibid., p. 3.

  59. 59.

    Ibid., p. 5.

  60. 60.

    Ibid., p. 210.

  61. 61.

    Merchant [15], p. 3.

  62. 62.

    Ibid., p. 181.

  63. 63.

    Ibid., p. 188.

  64. 64.

    Ibid., p. 207.

  65. 65.

    Ibid., p. 205.

  66. 66.

    Ibid., p. 204.

  67. 67.

    Merchant [15], p. 224.

  68. 68.

    Ibid., pp. 229–230.

  69. 69.

    Ibid., p. 3.

  70. 70.

    Ibid., p. 1.

  71. 71.

    Ibid., p. 60.

  72. 72.

    Merchant [15], p. 70.

  73. 73.

    Ibid., p. 146.

  74. 74.

    Ibid., p. 180.

  75. 75.

    Merchant [15], p. 89.

  76. 76.

    Ibid., p. 85.

  77. 77.

    Ibid., p. 93.

  78. 78.

    Ibid., p. 89.

  79. 79.

    Ibid., p. 101.

  80. 80.

    Ibid., p. 109.

  81. 81.

    Ibid., p. 327.

  82. 82.

    Merchant [15], p. 322.

  83. 83.

    Ibid., p. 323.

  84. 84.

    Ibid., p. 326.

  85. 85.

    Ibid., p. 327.

  86. 86.

    Gloverti [5], p. 215.

  87. 87.

    Ruckert [6], p. 117.

  88. 88.

    Howers [7], p. 82.

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Zeng, F. (2019). The Literary Context of the Birth of Ecological Aesthetics. In: Introduction to Ecological Aesthetics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8984-9_3

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