The Life and Work of Arne Naess: An Appreciative Overview

Alan Drengson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Graduate Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada. He works in Eastern philosophy, comparative religion, environmental philosophy, and cross cultural technology studies. He has taught and practices meditation disciplines related to harmony with Nature. He is the author of many articles and books (for example, The Practice of Technology and Beyond Environmental Crisis) and an unpublished manuscript called Wild Way Home. He is the founding editor of The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy and Ecoforestry, as well as co-editor of three anthologies, The Philosophy of Society, The Deep Ecology Movement, and Ecoforestry. His most recent editorial assignment was to oversee the completion of the Selected Works of Arne Naess, a ten volume collection of his writings due from Springer in 2005. See www.ecostery.org for samples of Drengson’s work. His email address: ecosophy@islandnet.com.