ISBN:
9780203996430
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (305 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Environmental Philosophies Band 3
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Plumwood, Val, 1939 - 2008 Environmental culture
DDC:
179.1
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Umweltethik
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Umweltwissenschaften
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Humanökologie
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Philosophie
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Vernunft
Abstract:
In this much-needed account of what has gone wrong in our thinking about the environment, Val Plumwood digs at the roots of environmental degradation. She argues that we need to see nature as an end itself, rather than an instrument to get what we want. Using a range of examples, Plumwood presents a radically new picture of how our culture must change to accommodate nature
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Environmental culture and the crisis of reason; Culture versus techno-optimism: reason to the rescue?; Adding ecology: ecohumanities perspectives; 1 The ecological crisis of reason; The penguin's story; Modern heirs of rationalism; Dualism and economic rationalism; Blindspots of rationalism: the fisheries case; A gendered agenda: neither rational, ecological or ethical; 2 Rationalism and the ambiguity of science; The double face of science; Disengagement as sado-dispassionate practice; The subject/object divide and the ambiguity of science
Description / Table of Contents:
Resolving the ambiguity of science: integrating the 'two cultures'Anthropocentrism and anthropomorphism; 3 The politics of ecological rationality; The rationality of the EcoRepublic; The politics of rationality; Remoteness and decision; Remoteness, autarchy and spatial scale; 4 Inequality and ecological rationality; Liberal democracy and ecological rationality; Beyond liberal democracy: deliberative modifications; Beyond deliberative democracy; The ecological rationality of procedural and participatory democracy; 5 The blindspots of centrism and human self-enclosure
Description / Table of Contents:
Rationalism and human-centrednessThe logical structure of centrism; A parallel liberation model of anthropocentrism; Economic centrism: nature as class and resource; The centric parallel as a practical model; Otherising as an impediment to justice; The prudential blindspots of anthropocentrism; 6 Philosophy, prudence and anthropocentrism; Is challenging anthropocentrism irrelevant and unhelpful?; Is human-centredness inevitable? The dilemma of prudential argument; Is human-centredness inevitable? The argument from standpoint; Selfishness and cosmic irrelevance
Description / Table of Contents:
Recognition, prudence and survival7 The ethics of commodification; Commodification and person/property dualism; Minimalist methodologies of closure; Animal rights and vegetarian duties; Rationalism, factory farming and use/respect dualism; 8 Towards a dialogical interspecies ethics; Decentring human-centred ethics; Ranking, dualism and heterogeneity; Ranking and interspecies egalitarianism; Framework stances and the myth of mindlessness; Intentionality and moral value; The intentional recognition stance and non-humans; Opening up interspecies ethics; Communicative interspecies ethics
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Unity, solidarity and deep ecologyThe basis of solidarity: identity or difference?; Solidarity and oppressive concepts of unity; Unity and the political theory of deep ecology; The ecological enlightenment of the man of property; Is there an eco-socialist deep ecology?; 10 Towards a materialist spirituality of place; Is spirituality more fundamental?; 'Materialism' and spirit/matter dualism; Human-centred spiritualities; Indigenous critiques; Trickster spirituality: the world as agent; Place-based spirituality as oppositional practice; 11 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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