Professor Simon James' Outputs (2)

“Nothing Truly Wild is Unclean”: Muir, Misanthropy, and the Aesthetics of Dirt (2014)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2014). “Nothing Truly Wild is Unclean”: Muir, Misanthropy, and the Aesthetics of Dirt. Environmental Ethics, 36(3), 357-363. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics201436335

For John Muir, nothing truly wild is unclean. Dirtiness is the result of human influence. Muir’s view finds an echo in the works of those writers, such as Robinson Jeffers, who regard urban environments as wild places that have, over time, become inc... Read More about “Nothing Truly Wild is Unclean”: Muir, Misanthropy, and the Aesthetics of Dirt.

Green Managerialism and the Erosion of Meaning (2014)
Book Chapter
James, S. P. (2014). Green Managerialism and the Erosion of Meaning. In M. Drenthen, & J. Keulartz (Eds.), Old world and new world perspectives in environmental philosophy : transatlantic conversations (139-150). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07683-6_9

In this chapter, Simon P. James argues that nature can be harmed, degraded, destroyed, but also restored, preserved or in some other way looked after, but that this also holds true of nature’s meanings. It is in many cases possible to look after or ‘... Read More about Green Managerialism and the Erosion of Meaning.