书目名称 | Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships |
副标题 | Beyond Dualisms, Mat |
编辑 | Neil H. Kessler |
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概述 | This book makes the case that all environmental problems are intimate and relational in origin.Presents a new perspective that challenges the posthumanist solution to human exceptionalism.Moves beyond |
丛书名称 | AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series |
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描述 | .In .Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships., Neil H. Kessler identifies the preconceptions which can keep the modern human mind in the dark about what is happening relationally between humans and the more-than-human world. He has written an accessible work of environmental philosophy, with a focus on the ontology of human-nature relationships. In it, he contends that large-scale environmental problems are intimate and relational in origin. He also challenges the deeply embedded, modernist assumptions about the relational limitations of more-than-human beings, ones which place erroneous limitations on the possibilities for human/more-than-human closeness. Diverging from the posthumanist literature and its frequent reliance on new materialist ontology, the arguments in the book attempt to sweep away what ecofeminists call “human/nature dualisms. In doing so, conceptual avenues open up that have the power to radically alter how we engage in our daily interactions with the more-than-human world all around us. .Given the diversity of fields and disciplines focused on the human-nature relationship, the topics of this book vary quite broadly, but always converge at th |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | environmental philosophy; human-nature relationships; ontology; human-nature dualism; environmental prob |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99274-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-07583-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-99274-7Series ISSN 2509-9787 Series E-ISSN 2509-9795 |
issn_series | 2509-9787 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 |