The California Crucible: Literary Harbingers of Deep Ecology
Petr Kopecký
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The California Crucible: Literary Harbingers of Deep Ecology

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This study aims to explore the zones of contact between the works of five California writers namelyJohn Muir, Mary Austin, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck and Gary Snyder and the ecophilosophical stream called deep ecology. The analysis of the texts confirms the hypothesis that all five authors both anticipated and accelerated the form(ul)ation of the tenets of the deep ecology movement. Moreover, Kopecký identifies four factors that constitute the foundations for the deep ecological worldview presented by the authors in their writing. These include philosophical syncretism, gestalt ontology...