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The Denial of Nature - Environmental philosophy in the era of global capitalism (Paperback)
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The Denial of Nature - Environmental philosophy in the era of global capitalism (Paperback)
Series: Ontological Explorations Routledge Critical Realism
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A study of the increasingly precarious relationship between humans
and nature, this book seeks to go beyond work already contributed
to the environmental movement. It does so by highlighting the
importance of experiencing, rather than merely theorizing nature,
while realizing that such experience is becoming increasingly rare,
thus reinforcing the estrangement from nature that is a source of
its ongoing human-caused destruction. In his original approach to
environmental philosophy, the author argues for the reinstatement
of nature's value outside of its exploitative usefulness for human
ends. Such a perspective emphasizes the extent to which the
environmental problem is a concrete reality requiring urgent
action, based on a multi-sensuous appreciation of humans'
dependence on nonhuman lifeforms. Designed as an accompaniment to
undergraduate and postgraduate research, The Denial of Nature draws
on empirically informed literature from the social sciences to
examine what life is really like for humans and nature in the era
of global capitalism. The book contends that capitalist society
exploits nature - both in the form of human capital and natural
capital - more relentlessly than any other and offers an
environmental philosophy which actively opposes current
developments. Through discussions of the work of Teresa Brennan,
Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger and Hans Jonas, and through a
radical critique of the nature deficit in Jurgen Habermas' theory
of capitalist modernity, The Denial of Nature relies on insights
from Critical Realism to bring together several, seldom-linked
philosophies and suggest a new approach to the heavily-discussed
question of environmental ethics. Arne Johan Vetlesen is Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway and the author of
twenty books among them Perception, Empathy and Judgment: An
Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance (1994),
Closenes: An Ethics (with H. Jodalen; 1997), Evil and Human Agency
(2005) and A Philosophy of Pain (2010). .
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