Norwegian Environmentalists - Arne Naess, Steinar LEM, Jan Martin Larsen, Tore Killingland, Ragnar Frislid, Per Aunet, Erik Dammann, Anders Hagen (Paperback)

Chapters: Arne Naess, Steinar Lem, Jan Martin Larsen, Tore Killingland, Ragnar Frislid, Per Aunet, Erik Dammann, Anders Hagen, Elin Lerum Boasson, Silje Schei Tveitdal, Heidi Sorensen, Magnar Norderhaug, Per Flatberg, Kristen Gran Gleditsch, Hanna Elise Marcussen, Alvhild Hedstein, Ane Hansdatter Kismul, Lars Haltbrekken, Einar Handlykken, Ola Skaalvik Elvevold, Bard Lahn, Gudmund Skjeldal, Ingeborg Gjaerum, Sondre Batstrand, Kurt Oddekalv. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arne Dekke Eide Naess (27 January 1912 12 January 2009) was the founder of deep ecology. He was the youngest person to be appointed full professor at the University of Oslo. Naess cited Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring as being a key influence in his vision of deep ecology. Naess combined his ecological vision with Gandhian nonviolence and on several occasions participated in direct action. In 1970, together with a large number of demonstrators, he chained himself to rocks in front of Mardalsfossen, a waterfall in a Norwegian fjord, and refused to descend until plans to build a dam were dropped. Though the demonstrators were carried away by police and the dam was eventually built, the demonstration launched a more activist phase of Norwegian environmentalism. In 1958, Arne Naess founded the interdiciplinary journal of philosophy Inquiry. Naess had been a minor political candidate for the Norwegian Green Party. Naess was a noted mountaineer, who in 1950 led the expedition that made the first ascent of Tirich Mir (7,708 m). The Tvergastein hut in the Hallingskarvet massif played an important role in Naess' life. Arne Naess' main philosophical work from the 1950s was entitled "Interpretation and Preciseness." This was an application of set theory to the problems of language interp...More: http: //booksllc.net/?