Includes bibliographical references (pages [326]-339)
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The life and work of Arne Naess: an appreciative overview by Alan Drengson -- Places in the Real World -- An example of a place: Tvergastein -- Modesty and the conquest of mountains -- Avalanches as social constructions -- The world of concrete contents -- Self-realization: an ecological approach to being in the world -- The Long-Range Deep Ecology Movement -- The three great movements -- The basics of the deep ecology movement -- Cultural diversity and the deep ecology movement -- The place of joy in a world of fact -- Beautiful actions: its function in the ecological crisis -- Lifestyle trends within the deep ecology movement -- Methodology and Systems -- Reflections on total views -- The limited neutrality of typologies of systems -- The methodology of normative systems -- Pluralism in cultural anthropology -- The principle of intensity -- Creativity and Gestalt thinking -- Gestalt thinking and Buddhism -- Nonviolence and Gandhi, Spinoza and Wholeness -- Nonmililtary defense -- Gandhian nonviolent verbal communication: the necessity of training -- Spinoza and the deep ecology movement -- Through Spinoza to Mahayana Buddhism, or through Mahayana Buddhism to Spinoza? -- Freedom, self, and activeness, according to Spinoza -- Problems and Ways Forward -- Industrial society, postmodernity, and ecological sustainability -- Sustainability! : the integral approach -- Population reduction: an ecosophical view -- Deep ecology for the twenty-second century