Volume 46, Number 11 · June 24, 1999
The Struggle Over Thoreau
By Leo Marx
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 1: 1837-1844
Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Princeton University Press, 702 pp., $75.00
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 2: 1842-1848
Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Princeton University Press, 602 pp., $70.00
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 3: 1848-1851
Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Princeton University Press, 620 pp., $70.00
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 4: 1851-1852
Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Princeton University Press, 787 pp., $70.00
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal Volume 5: 1852-1853
Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Princeton University Press, 715 pp., $65.00
Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings
by Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Bradley P. Dean
Island Press, 283 pp., $16.95 (paper)
A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851
by Henry David Thoreau, with an introduction and notes by H. Daniel Peck
Penguin, 339 pp., $13.95 (paper)
Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto "Lost Journal" (1840-1841) Together with Notes and a Commentary
edited by Perry Miller
AMS Press, 243 pp., $42.50
Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism
by George#tedited by Sessions
Shambhala, 488 pp., $30.00
Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal
by Sharon Cameron
University of Chicago Press, 173 pp., $14.50 (paper)
Ecocentrists are the Puritans of today's environmental movement. Dedicated to changing the way we think about humanity's relations with nature, they are critical of anyone—whether an environmentalist or a despoiler—who assumes that the chief reason for protecting the environment is its usefulness to human beings. 'No intellectual vice is more crippling,' writes the Harvard sociobiologist and outspoken ecocentrist E.O. Wilson, 'than defiantly self-indulgent anthropocentrism.'
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