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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790965503321

Autore

Bannon Bryan E. <1979->

Titolo

From mastery to mystery : a phenomenological foundation for an environmental ethic / / Bryan E. Bannon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8214-4469-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Series in Continental thought

Disciplina

113

Soggetti

Philosophy of nature

Naturalness (Environmental sciences)

Ecology - Philosophy

Phenomenology

Environmental ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Question of Nature; 1: The Promise of a Common World; 2: Science, Technology and the Closure of Nature; 3: The Opening of the Earth; 4: Merleau-Ponty and Nature as the Common World; Conclusion: Nature's Norms; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as  "substance" that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists. Instead, this book reconsiders the basic goals of an environmental ethic by questioning the most basic presupposition that most environmentalists accept: that nature is in need of preservation.  Beginning with Bruno Latour's idea that continuing to speak of nature in the way we popularly conceive of it