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Anne Frank's Tree - Nature's Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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Anne Frank's Tree - Nature's Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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In this important and original interdisciplinary work, well-known
environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology's role in
dominating both nature and humanity. He argues that technology
dominates, and hence destroys, the natural world; it dominates, and
hence destroys, critical aspects of human life and society.
Technology causes an estrangement from nature, and thus a loss of
meaning in human life. As a result, humans lose the power to make
moral and social choices; they lose the power to control their
lives. Katz's argument innovatively connects two distinct areas of
thought: the fundamental goal of the Holocaust, including Nazi
environmental policy, to heal the degenerate elements of society;
and the plan to heal degraded natural systems that informs the
contemporary environmental policy of 'ecological restoration'. In
both arenas of 'healing,' Katz argues that technological forces
drive action, while domination emerges as the prevailing ideology.
Katz's work is a plea for the development of a technology that does
not dominate and destroy but instead promotes autonomy and
freedom.Anne Frank, a victim of Nazi ideology and action, saw the
titular tree behind her secret annex as a symbol of freedom and
moral goodness. In Katz's argument, the tree represents a free and
autonomous nature, resistant to human control and domination. Anne
Frank's Tree is rooted in an empirical approach to philosophy,
seating complex ethical ideas in an accessible and powerful
narrative of historical fact and deeply personal lived experience.
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