Is It Painful to Think: Conversations with Arne Naess

by David Rothenberg

Book Overview

Although he is known primarily as the inventor of the phrase "deep ecology," Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess's thoughts and approaches have waded through all the major streams and events of our times. From a childhood during World War I through the study of psychoanalysis in Freud's Vienna, through the midcentury hardening of ideologies to the most recent decades with the emergence of ecology as a political force, his life in the throes of nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816621527
• ISBN13: 9780816621521
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"