Alienation and Nature in Environmental Philosophy
Cambridge University Press, 9/3/2015
EAN 9781107081963, ISBN10: 1107081963
Hardcover, 278 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Many environmental scientists, scholars and activists characterise our situation as one of alienation from nature, but this notion can easily seem meaningless or irrational. In this book, Simon Hailwood critically analyses the idea of alienation from nature and argues that it can be a useful notion when understood pluralistically. He distinguishes different senses of alienation from nature pertaining to different environmental contexts and concerns, and draws upon a range of philosophical and environmental ideas and themes including pragmatism, eco-phenomenology, climate change, ecological justice, Marxism and critical theory. His novel perspective shows that different environmental concerns - both anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric - can dovetail, rather than compete with, each other, and that our alienation from nature need not be something to be regretted or overcome. His book will interest a broad readership in environmental philosophy and ethics, political philosophy, geography and environmental studies.
1. Introduction
2. Alienations and natures
3. Pragmatists and sea squirts
4. Landscape
5. Nonhuman nature
estrangement
6. Nonhuman nature
alienation
7. Estrangement from the natural world
8. Entailments and entanglements
9. Concluding remarks
References
Index.