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1. Environmental Philosophy: Volume > 20 > Issue: 1
Jayson Jimenez Becoming-Bonsai, Becoming-Carer
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This essay reflects on my academic work and personal experience as a bonsai enthusiast. Specifically, I plan to point out how Deleuzian theory informs my bonsai practice. First, I situate bonsai gardening as an encounter with the vegetal world. Then I consider this encounter as a form of Deleuzian becoming. Becoming reifies a transformation of the two species to become another version of itself—one that occurs between a bonsai and its carer. As a bonsai carer myself, I find becoming as a precise illustration of my relationship with bonsais; hence, a vegetal encounter in the making.
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Monika Kaup Indigenous Eco-Apocalypticism: Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s The Falling Sky
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Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s 2010 collaborative work, The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, centers on a prophetic warning of impending apocalyptic collapse due to anthropogenic environmental destruction. An indigenous contribution to the contemporary burst of eco-apocalyptic writing and the search for a new ecological social order, The Falling Sky challenges the temporal vector of Euroamerican eco-apocalypticism. Instead of the teleological axis of anthropocentric temporality (the emergence of homo sapiens as the pinnacle of evolution), it refers us to a temporality of terrestrial life, where homo sapiens is just one more living species in the web of life.
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Michael J. Reno Adorno on the Possibility of Nature
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I present an interpretation of Adorno’s concept of nature that prompts a confrontation with both the domination of nature and the romanticization of nature. This interpretation would situate a normative stance toward human engagement with nature not in the idealization of a pre-social or pre-human nature, but in the (missed) possibilities of past human engagements with non-human nature. Experience of art, such as Edward Burtynsky’s photography, can push us toward such a stance. This stance forces a reconsideration of the dominant form of self-preservation in most contemporary societies; nature cannot be realized until our species understands itself as a species.
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Olli Pitkänen Environmental Philosophy, Esotericism, and Disenchantment: A Comment on Sean McGrath’s Ecophilosophy
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Sean McGrath has produced an interesting interpretation of Renaissance Hermeticism in the context of environmental philosophy. By recovering this esoteric current he combines deep ecological criticism of anthropocentrism with humanistic critique of one-sidedly ecocentric views. After summarizing McGrath’s position and arguing for its profound potential, I will point out a problem in McGrath’s use of one of his key conceptions: disenchantment. Countering McGrath, I argue that the conception of disenchantment is not suitable for distinguishing overly ideological or superficial forms of esotericism from those with actual philosophical and political potential.
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Simon Nørgaard Iversen A Hegelian Perspective on Nature Recognition
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Recent posthuman theories of nature recognition seek to move beyond Hegel’s anthropological starting point. This article serves as a critical rejoinder to such posthuman attempts by taking aim at posthumanism’s flat ontology and concept of agency. Instead, it is suggested that a genuine Hegelian starting point is better suited to discern the complex interrelationship between the human and nonhuman. It is argued that a Hegelian theory of recognition that takes Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Mind into consideration can give nature its due while simultaneously preserving humans as the primary locus of agency in answering current environmental problems.
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Ana Vieyra Naturalizing Value and Hegel’s Notion of the Impotence of Nature
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In this paper I suggest an alternative reading of the value of Hegel’s systematic approach to nature from the perspective of environmental philosophy. Taking the paradigmatic example of the “new materialist” ontologies, I present the problems with an inflationary justification for the argument for the need of a shift in the “scientific” representation of nature. On the basis of these problems, I suggest that Hegel’s view of nature as axiologically impotent sheds light into why emancipatory environmental theory needs not hinge on a determinate understanding of nature. In my reading, this rejection can be harmonized with the asymmetric nature of our responsibility towards non-human nature.
book reviews
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Sara Louise Tonge Animal Revolution
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Anna Myers Melancholic Joy: On Life Worth Living
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Chandler D. Rogers The Imaginary of Animals
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Lanbin Feng Thinking Like an Iceberg
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Shoshana McIntosh Ways of Being Alive
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Lewis Rosenberg A Black Forest Walden: Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando
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Ben Larsen Wild Diplomacy: Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map
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Isabelle Bishop Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth
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