Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and
international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to
accumulating ecological problems. _In Return to Nature? An Ecological
Counterhistory_, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been
marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era. Although nature
was regarded as a matrix that encompassed all beings in premodern and
classical thought, modern Western thinkers tend to disregard this
original unity, essentially exiling nature from human life. By means
of a philosophical counterhistory leading from Spinoza to Dewey and
beyond, the book traces successive efforts to correct this tendency.
Grounding his writing in a holistic relationism that reconnects
humanity with ecology, Dallmayr pleads for the reintroduction of
nature into contemporary philosophical discussion and sociopolitical
practice.
_Return to Nature?_ unites learning, intelligence, sensibility, and
moral passion to offer a multifaceted history of philosophy with
regard to our place in the natural world. Dallmayr's visionary
writings provide an informed foundation for environmental policy and
represent an impassioned call to reclaim nature in our everyday lives.
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ISBN
9780813140483
Publisert
2013
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The University Press of Kentucky
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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