<p>Eugene (Gene) Hargrove was born in 1944 and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He received all of his college degrees in philosophy from the University of Missouri, Columbia. While working on his Ph.D., he became
... <p>Eugene (Gene) Hargrove was born in 1944 and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He received all of his college degrees in philosophy from the University of Missouri, Columbia. While working on his Ph.D., he became involved in saving a cave, Devil's Icebox, from residential water pollution as a representative of the National Speleological Society. At that time he was urged by other environmental activists to do something about environmental ethics, since he was then a front-line environmentalist and also an academic specialist in ethics. He eventually founded the first journal on the subject, Environmental Ethics (1979), which he has edited now for more than thirty years. During that time, he has taught at the University of New Mexico, the University of Georgia, and finally the University of North Texas, where he founded the first graduate program in environmental ethics (today offering both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in the field). He is the author of Foundations of Environmental Ethics (1989) and editor of Religion and Environmental Crisis (1986), Beyond Spaceship Earth: Environmental Ethics and the Solar System (1986), and the Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate: The Environmental Perspective (1992). Foundations of Environmental Ethics has been translated into Korean, Italian, and Chinese. A Spanish translation will appear in the near future. As an environmental ethicist, he has been involved with restoration ecology and conservation biology as well as the NASA space program. He is currently working on ethical issues related to possible extraterrestrial life and the preservation of the Moon from untempered development. His main research, however, is devoted to exploring the teaching of environmental ethics at the elementary school level. He is editing a sequel to Beyond Spaceship Earth and writing a new single-author book to be called Environmental Ethics and the Culture War. He has also developed an interest in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and is considered a Tolkien scholar. He is best known for his essay "Who is Tom Bombadil?" (which originally appeared in the journal Mythlore in 1986), but he occasionally writes essays on Tolkien for a monthly publication called Beyond Bree. They have included "Invisibility in Middle-Earth: A Tentative Theory"(2003), "Music in Middle-Earth" (1995), "Choice and Providential Determinism in Middle-Earth" (2003), and "Lying, Being Mistaken, and Not Knowing in Middle-Earth" (2004). He has published two songbooks covering nearly all of the music and poetry in English contained in the Lord of the Rings: Music of Middle-Earth, Vol. 1: A Musical Journey from the Shire to Rivendell (2001) and Music of Middle-Earth, Vol. 2: A Musical Journey from the Khazad-dum to Gondor (2002). He has also made instrumental CDs for most of the music contained in the two books.</p>
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