Nature and the Human World

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Recent upheaval in our livessuch as from the global COVID-19 pandemic, or fromthe catastrophic effects of climate change and ecological devastationcall forcritical and creative reflection on relations between nature and our humanly builtworlds. While attending to influential understandings of nature operative inmodern politics, economics, technology, and science, this course aims above all toexplore the philosophical and religious significance of our human relations withnature in the contemporary world. Readings in the course cover a range ofperspectives from modern Western philosophy, the history of Christianity,American agrarian and ecological thinking, and indigenous traditions.