Description
Modern environmentalism usually frames the environment as "nature": it is either seen and treated from a technoscientific, "objective" point of view or from romantic, "subjective" point of view. Whereas the former understands nature as a provider of ecoservices or in terms of systems, the latter projects its own concerns, feelings, etc. onto nature as a screen for the self. This paper argues that these modes of seeing and doing present a distorted view of the basic, existential relation between humans and their environment, and encourage a normative relation to the environment that is distant, detached, and disengaged. The paper then explores how we might conceptualize a different, less dualistic understanding of our relation to the environment and how this may be connected to a different ethics and environmentalism centered on engagement and care.| Period | 17 Feb 2016 |
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| Held at | University of Texas, Austin, United States, Texas |