John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, ecoriticism, ecology, deep ecology, environment, Ed Ricketts

Tato stať mapuje mnohovrstevnatou povahu knihy Zápisky z Cortézova moře (1941) z pera Johna Steinbecka. Tato kniha obsahuje řadu stěžejních idejí, na nichž jsou postavena autorova známá díla. Kritici donedávna ignorovali metafyzické vrstvy knihy. Tento text analyzuje souvislosti mezi ekologickou a hlubinně ekologickou (tj. filosofickou) rovinou tvorby Johna Steinbecka, zejména v knize Zápisky z Cortézova moře.

This essay explores the multi-faceted nature of John Steinbeck's The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1941). This book is a crucial source of ideas that shaped Steinbeck?s world view and eventually found their way into his best-known works. However, critics failed to appreciate the significance of the metaphysical extensions of these observations. This essay thus examines the interface between the science of ecology and its metaphysical extension, known as deep ecology, in Steinbeck?s writing, especially in the book in question.