Whitehead, Sustainable Development, and Nonanthropocentrism
In this article, I want to put Whitehead to work in the context of the discourse of sustainable development. My argument will be that Whitehead offers a way of thinking about and doing metaphysics that challenges the logic of anthropocentrism that drives much of the thinking around sustainable devel...
| Subtitles: | "The Philosophy of Organism and Climate Change" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
2023
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| In: |
Process studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-63 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
/ Leopold, Aldo 1886-1948
/ Ecology
/ Geology, Stratigraphic
/ Anthropocentrism
/ Cognition theory
/ Sustainable development
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| RelBib Classification: | NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
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| Summary: | In this article, I want to put Whitehead to work in the context of the discourse of sustainable development. My argument will be that Whitehead offers a way of thinking about and doing metaphysics that challenges the logic of anthropocentrism that drives much of the thinking around sustainable development. First, I will introduce the idea of sustainable development and give a brief history. Second, I will give an archaeology of sustainable development by exploring one of its fault lines: the divide that separates the anthropocentric from the nonanthropocentric, the human from the nonhuman. I will give examples of each approach and argue that Whitehead provides a metaphysics that attempts to overcome the "bifurcation of nature" and gives us a nonanthropocentric opening onto the ethical that promises new ways to think and practice sustainable development. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5406/21543682.52.1.04 |