Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Thinking through the Seasons
Luke Fischer and David Macauley

Part I: Environmental Time

1. The Four Seasons and the Rhythms of Place-Based Time
David Macauley

2. The Seasons Embodied: The Story of a Plant
Craig Holdrege

Part II: Phenomenology and Poetics

3. A Poetic Phenomenology of the Seasons
Luke Fischer

4. Hölderlin, Heidegger, and Seasonal Time
Paola-Ludovika Coriando

5. Toward a Phen(omen)ology of the Seasons: The Emergence of the Indigenous Weather Knowledge Project
John Charles Ryan

Part III: Anthropology and the Arctic

6. Arctic Summer
Alphonso Lingis

7. Seasonal Affective Order: The Passage of Sense in Circumpolar Religion
Joseph Ballan

Part IV: Everyday Aesthetics

8. The Almanac Projects: Modeling the Seasons through the Material World
Jo Law

9. The Cycle of Seasons: The Temporal Structure of Fashion
Yvonne Förster

Part V: Decolonizing Literature

10. The Nature and Culture of the Seasons: Homage to Henry David Thoreau
Rod Giblett

11. The Decolonized Pastoral: Kinsella, Thoreau, and the Seasons
Tom Bristow

Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index

Luke Fischer is an honorary associate of the philosophy department at the University of Sydney. His books include The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems. David Macauley is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Penn State Brandywine. His books include Elemental Philosophy: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas , also published by SUNY Press.