<i>Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond</i>, by Andrew Biro

Binnema, Ted

doi:10.3138/cjh.42.1.175

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“…According to Biró (2005), the systematic series of actions causing the progressive alienation of humans from nature can be most basically understood as a self-conscious transformation of the natural environment. Therefore, the ideological construct identified in the previous chapter represents the underpinning social force driving man away from the natural world.…”

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“…Therefore, the ideological construct identified in the previous chapter represents the underpinning social force driving man away from the natural world. This problem has been one of the main concerns of modern philosophers since the eighteenth century, namely Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse [41].…”

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The Natural World in Western Thought

Jarwar,

Dumontet,

Pasquale

2024

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The Western approach to the natural world, considering “nature” as an object of scientific scrutiny and of exploitation for economic purposes, results in a separateness and subsequent alienation from nature. The overarching aim of this paper is to emphasize the limitations and consequences of this approach, including how nature is perceived, the value attributed to nature, and the substantial denial of cultural contributions from non-Western philosophical and scientific backgrounds. We also consider the Western attempt at balancing industrial and technological endeavors, aimed at preserving ecological equilibria. In this framework, we argue that the current ever-increasing concern about sustainability cannot be decoupled from the perception of nature and natural values, whether material, aesthetic, or spiritual. Therefore, modern sustainability challenges, mainly attributable to Western overexploitation of nature and natural resources, need to be considered in the context of the limited Western paradigms, which often leave the very definition of nature unanswered. We argue that efforts to ease the anthropogenic pressure on natural ecosystems, leading to their degradation, cannot be uniquely bounded by Western science and its technological appendices.

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Section: Alienation From Naturementioning

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The Natural World in Western Thought

Jarwar,

Dumontet,

Pasquale

2024

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“…Many do. Yet, in such extremely "denaturalized ecologies" (Biro, 2005), is it not environmental overshoot that has robbed all life in these times and places of its resilience, making these mixed maladaptive prepping movements both seem imperative, and yet be likely unreliable?…”

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2021

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Fast Capitalism is an academic journal with a political intent. We publish reviewed scholarship and essays about the impact of rapid information and communication technologies on self, society and culture in the 21 st century. We do not pretend an absolute objectivity; the work we publish is written from the vantages of viewpoint. Our authors examine how heretofore distinct social institutions, such as work and family, education and entertainment, have blurred to the point of near identity in an accelerated, post-Fordist stage of capitalism. This makes it difficult for people to shield themselves from subordination and surveillance. The working day has expanded; there is little down time anymore. People can 'office' anywhere, using laptops and cells to stay in touch. But these invasive technologies that tether us to capital and control can also help us resist these tendencies. People use the Internet as a public sphere in which they express and enlighten themselves and organize others; women, especially, manage their families and nurture children from the job site and on the road, perhaps even 'familizing' traditionally patriarchal and bureaucratic work relations; information technologies afford connection, mitigate isolation, and even make way for social movements. We are convinced that the best way to study an accelerated media culture and its various political economies and existential meanings is dialectically, with nuance, avoiding sheer condemnation and ebullient celebration. We seek to shape these new technologies and social structures in democratic ways.

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“…Environmental Values 25.5 rescue themselves from alienation (Biro, 2005). Drawing on such accounts, deep ecologists in the 1970s revisited these hitherto marginalised normative arguments from holism to define the environmental and human exploitation that they experienced and witnessed as consequences of the centuries-long dominance of Enlightenment dualism (for a comprehensive list of influences, see Luke 2002: 182).…”

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Deep Ecology, the Holistic Critique of Enlightenment Dualism, and the Irony of History

Scerri¹

2016

Environmental Values

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In the 1970s, deep ecologists developed a radical normative argument for 'ecological consciousness' to challenge environmental and human exploitation. Such consciousness would replace the Enlightenment dualist 'illusion' with a post-Enlightenment holism that 'fully integrated' humanity within the ecosphere. By the 2000s, deep ecology had fallen out of favour with many green scholars. And, in 2014, it was described as a 'spent force'. However, this decline has coincided with calls by influential advocates of 'corporate social and environmental responsibility' (CSER) and 'green growth' (GG) that urge market actors to ensure voluntarily that social and environmental 'problems are addressed holistically'. Given that CSER and GG have also been associated with rent seeking, privatisation and reducing incomes of the poor, could it be that some of deep ecology's once radical ideas today serve to legitimate forms of exploitation that they once decried? A critical realist perspective can problematise deep ecology's highly normative response to exploitation and alienation. By settling ontological questions in favour of holism and promoting moral voluntarism, deep ecology failed to address how actors with different interests might adopt green ideas. This blind spot can be cured by focusing instead on the active deployment of ethics, morality, values, beliefs, ideas and knowledges by political actors in historically specific contexts. Both critical normative and critical realist modes of engaging with environmental values are important; however, at a time when holism and voluntarism are gaining influence, critical realism offers helpful insight into the uses and abuses of such values.

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Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond, by Andrew Biro

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