Animals and Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Denigration of the West 1. Advocacy Scholarship 2. "Beastliness" and "Brutality" 3. Animals All? 4. Rationalism 5. Alienation from Nature 6. From the Great Chain of Being to the Theory of Evolution 7. Aboriginal and Oriental Harmony with Nature 8. Gaea and the Universal Spirit Notes Select Bibliography Index