— 515 — Ethical Perspectives 24 (2017) 3 BOOK REVIEWS that becoming aware of these processes will contribute to genuine reflection, and hence will tend to reinforce new skills and practices, is warranted. Beyond the individual level, he even touches upon its social and political implications, conceiving of a pluralist and participatory environmental ‘politics of skill’ in which know-how is potentially levelling the hierarchy between ‘experts’ and ‘lay persons’. Coeckelbergh’s emphasis on the potency of engaged practical skill forms a timely and invigorating contribution to a field of environmental ethics in need of approaches to overcome its - as yet – limited effectiveness to translate ethical insights into lasting patterns of behaviour. At just over 200 pages, this work is replete with potential inspi- rational avenues for further interdisciplinary research. Even if highly condensed, the breadth of scope and the use of an impressive body of literature from different disci- plines and subfields well beyond his own core field of expertise, which is technological and environmental ethics, clearly merits praise. One can only hope that this volume will serve as a first exploration and a first overall map to further explore the terrain he intends to develop on a more detailed scale, thereby readdressing core arguments and filling in some of the remaining blanks, and especially exploring the practical embodied answers to be found in what may be a true virtue ethics of environmental skill. This is a philosophical groundwork on the hopeful heterotopy that is currently already devel- oping at grass-roots level (such as in repair-cafés or urban gardening), and which indeed deserves philosophical attention to understand the soundness of both its aspirations and its actual praxis. Coeckelbergh has indeed provided a valuable and stimulating stepping-stone to this end. Francis Van den Noortgaete KU Leuven Brian HARDING and Michael R. KELLY (eds.). Early Phenomenology: Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Religion. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 242 pp. In popular literature and in most scholarly writings, the history of phenomenology is usually presented as follows: “Husserl invented it and he had a bunch of students. One of them was named Martin Heidegger” (1), who took it in a very different direction. Most other philosophers may arguably be neglected since they were “overshadowed by Heidegger” (3). To reach some degree of clarity about the nature of contemporary phenomenology, the contributors to this volume turn to the early period of its history. They seek some kind of return to the sources (ressourcement) in order to “retrieve forgotten insights” about “the things themselves” (4). It is usually said that phenomenology was born, or came to the fore, with Husserl’s Logische Untersuchungen (1900), and underwent fundamental changes through the French existentialists after 1945. The early phenomenologist are therefore the authors of “major works prior to the Second World War” (2). The first section of the book, 100071_Ethical_Persp_2017-3_07_BookReviews.indd 515 22/09/17 15:35