Paul J Shepard

Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence

In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book, Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an "us or them" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the ...

The Only World We've Got: A Paul Shepard Reader

Philosopher and essayist Paul Shepard (19251996) brought to the environmental literature of the 1960s and ’70s the political passion of the time, but a passion matched with a demand for scholarly precision. This anthology from his work, which Shepard himself assembled not long before his death, addr...

Nature and Madness

Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence―we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestations of nature, we seek to plunder, alter, and control them. Here Paul Shepard uncovers the cultural roots of our ecological crisis and proposes ways to r...

The Wilderness Condition

This book aims to introduce to a larger audience issues that are too often limited to scholarly circles. A thought-provoking collection of essays by some of the environmental movement's preeminent thinkers, The Wilderness Condition explores the dynamic tension between wild nature and civilization, o...

The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game

In what may be his boldest and most controversial book, Paul Shepard presents an account of human behavior and ecology in light of our past. In it, he contends that agriculture is responsible for our ecological decline and looks to the hunting and gathering lifestyle as a model more closely in tune ...

Traces of an Omnivore

Paul Shepard is one of the most profound and original thinkers of our time. He has helped define the field of human ecology, and has played a vital role in the development of what have come to be known as environmental philosophy, ecophilosophy, and deep ecology-new ways of thinking about human-envi...

Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature

A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie ...

Coming Home to the Pleistocene

"When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams, we will be on the way to a long overdue reconc...

The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature

The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature

Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence

The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game

Nature and Madness

The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game

Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence

Where We Belong: Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature