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Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics - A Humanist Reading of Recent French Ecofiction (Hardcover)
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Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics - A Humanist Reading of Recent French Ecofiction (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Modern and Contemporary France, 5
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In France, the fundamental intellectual debate over ecology might
best be summarized by the contrasting views of Michel Serres and
Luc Ferry. In The Natural Contract, Serres calls for an end to
humans' war on nature: Our world view must turn from
anthropocentric to ecocentric, and our relationship to the earth
must become symbiotic instead of parasitic. Luc Ferry's response to
Serres in The New Ecological Order ridicules the metaphor of a
natural contract, by which humans (and humanism) would no longer
reign over the earth. Ferry accuses Serres and other ecological
thinkers of being "premodern" and "prehumanistic"; valuing nonhuman
life as much as human life evokes the ridiculous trials of five
centuries ago when beetles and rats were threatened with
excommunication if they did not cease their antihuman activities.
After analyzing the Serres-Ferry debate, Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics
examines environmental themes in novels by Michel Tournier,
Stephane Audeguy, and Chantal Chawaf. It then considers the complex
and evolving relationship between humans and animals as expressed
in novels by Vercors and Olivia Rosenthal, and in philosophical
works by Jacques Derrida, Elisabeth de Fontenay, and Peter Singer,
among others. Two novels each by the humanist J.-C. Rufin and the
humorist Iegor Gran provide a dose of healthy skepticism. Rufin's
stories reveal the potential dark side of extreme
environmentalism-authoritarianism and terrorism-while Gran's
hilarious satires critique some environmentalists' piousness,
opportunism, humorlessness, and antihumanism. The book concludes
that environmentalism and humanism are not incompatible, if we
proceed beyond the traditional humanism of Ferry and other
modernists. Essays by philosophers such as Claude Levi-Strauss,
Pierre Rabhi, Edgar Morin, and Michel Maffesoli demonstrate that an
inclusive, ecological humanism is not only possible but necessary
for our survival.
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