Arne Johan Vetlesen. The Denial of Nature: Environmental Philosophy in the Era of Global Capitalism

Tønnessen, Morten

doi:10.5840/envirophil201613245

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“…However, the dualism remained and gained momentum in modernity with the expansion of the Baconian idea of dominion over nature and the Cartesian externalization of it as a separate object (Haila, 2000: 159, 164, 170). Today, we are tragically confirming that destroying nature requires abstraction and the absence of direct experience on the part of those destroying it (Vetlesen, 2015).…”

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Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences

Alonso-Rocafort

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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On 18 October 1708, Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) gave his seventh inaugural oration, De nostri temporis studiorum ratione (De ratione) at the University of Naples. There, he used the term conspirare to propose collaboration among the sciences. An initial study of the historical context, specifically the scholar’s involvement with the Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia (1701) and the debates on university reform, makes it possible to formulate a hypothesis regarding Vico’s intent and word choice that enriches our understanding of the preserved text. On a personal level, the Neapolitan professor was looking for a modicum of protection from the new authorities, especially the recently named viceroy in audience that day, Cardinal Vicenzo Grimani. On the political plane, along with a surreptitious argument against tyranny, Vico sought to dissuade the new governors from subscribing to the divisive approach embodied in the university policy of the Cartesian and Bourbonic reformers. Direct analysis of the text of De ratione enabled theoretical scrutiny of the frame from which Vico called for more than mere encyclopaedic knowledge. He was setting forth a vision for a conspiratorial project among the sciences based on a broad understanding of rhetoric. His original proposal for inter- and trans-disciplinarity can inform current debates on the same topic.

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Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences

Alonso-Rocafort

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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“…The extensive use of natural resources is justified by higher material wealth, which however does not always lead to long-term well-being (Jackson, 2009;Kallis, 2018). On the contrary, the so-called "progress" can create new hazards when it comes to psychological health (Sørensen, 2010; see also Vetlesen, 2016). It is not within the scope of this article to provide universal explanations of the many causes of the mental health epidemic in the Global North.…”

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Suffering catalyzing ecopreneurship: Critical ecopsychology of organizations

2021

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The article bridges the gap between ecology and mind in organization theory by exploring the role of psychological suffering for sustainable organizing. In particular, it shows how burn-out, experiential deprivation, and ecological anxiety prompt ecopreneurs within the Swedish back-to-the-land movement to become ecologically embedded. Three counter-practices illustrate how this suffering represents an inner revolt against the exploitative structures of modern society and growth capitalism, and a catalyst for alternative ecopreneurship. The article takes the first steps toward critical ecopsychology of organizations, which offers an ecocentric ontology and a moral-political framework for degrowth transition.

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“…To come to grips with the ways in which that dialectic now backfires and becomes dangerous to humans as well as to nature, an ethics that comprises other than humans as intrinsically valuable is urgently needed. In keeping with the science of ecology, such a biocentric, non‐ (but not anti‐) anthropocentric ethics acknowledges value as an ever‐regenerative force operative in nature rather than as something projected onto it by humans, thus rejecting the hubris of holding that value is of our making, something determined by us and that comprises only us (see Rolston, 1988; Vetlesen, 2015). The point of departure for such an ethics is the ecological insight into humans’ dependence on the multitude of other‐than‐human “Others,” a dependence ineluctably given as the condition without which a good life and a just society would be impossible.…”

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Ethics in the Anthropocene: The case for questioning anthropocentrism

Vetlesen

2023

Constellations

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On August 11, 1843, during a trip to the Pyrenees, Victor Hugo wrote: "Doubtless it was first of all necessary to civilize man [sic] in relation to his fellow men. But it is also necessary to civilize humans in relation to nature. There, everything remains to be done." A good hundred years later, Albert Schweitzer observed that "A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help." On Schweitzer's view, to civilize humans in relation to nature calls for a rejection of the notion that only humans possess intrinsic value, it demands, as I will argue below, that other than human beings be regarded as moral addressees in their own right.Both quotes are given at the start of Holmes Rolston's Environmental Ethics, where he also cites the following from John Rawls' A Theory of Justice: "Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species

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Arne Johan Vetlesen. The Denial of Nature: Environmental Philosophy in the Era of Global Capitalism

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Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences

Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences

Suffering catalyzing ecopreneurship: Critical ecopsychology of organizations

Ethics in the Anthropocene: The case for questioning anthropocentrism

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