[1] He is a well- known writer and lecturer on nature and culture, on environmental and natural-resource challenges, and on private property considered as a dynamic, socially constructed institution.
He has lectured in the United States and elsewhere, including Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Korea, New Zealand, and South Africa.
[1] Freyfogle is known for his wide-ranging, critical writings about private property, which he presents as an evolving, morally complex social institution that is as much cultural as it is legal.
In various works he has called upon the national conservation movement to take greater interest in private property as an institution and to counter inherited assumptions with a vision of more ecologically responsible land ownership.
His writings here have been distinctly interdisciplinary, making extensive use of environmental history and philosophy, ecological thought, and relevant social science scholarship.
The book illustrates, as do other works, his long interest in the writings of Aldo Leopold and Wendell Berry and features commentary on Laudato Si’ by Pope Francis.
The work “endeavors to set the full intellectual stage” (p. 5) by exploring the sources of normativity and the rightful role of humans in attributing moral value while critiquing the moral thinness of modern liberal thought and the values embedded in market capitalism.