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...a splendid contribution to contemporary debates about environmental issues.
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In this much-needed account of what has gone wrong in our thinking about the environment, Val Plumwood digs at the roots of environmental degradation. She argues that we need to see nature as an end itself, rather than an instrument to get what we want. Using a range of examples, Plumwood presents a radically new picture of how our culture must change to accommodate nature.
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You may ask whether a man can be a feminist - but this book was recommended to me by the editor of a book called Animals and Women which identifies the necessity of equal rights for animals as a condition of Holistic philosophy. I agree. Does this make me a feminist? Read this book to decide what Equality means in terms of a culture of the environment.
Admittedly Plumwood is a kind of academic but the story of her surviving an attack by a crocodile leaves one with the impression that she knows. Unfortunately, so think most academics and the problem is to decide who is using language in the correct way. At times the structure and weight of her sentences require deep commitment, at others her mockery of other strains of green philosophy such as what she calls `deep-pocket ecology' evince more than a chuckle.
Essentially this is the book I should have written years ago, not for want of trying. It is supremely difficult to write a book which encompasses everything but with the tool of language which is admittedly limiting. I cannot think of anyone who makes a better stab at it. She manages this because she lives the reality she describes. The rhetoric and the descriptive prose reel off her pen with a slipperiness and impact which stimulates and yet gnaws at the base of the spine. To read this, digest it fully [I have not managed this yet after three years], and remain unmoved is impossible. The slightest brush with this great writer will leave the truly open-minded seeker for harmony with nature in an ecstatic trance.
Admittedly Plumwood is a kind of academic but the story of her surviving an attack by a crocodile leaves one with the impression that she knows. Unfortunately, so think most academics and the problem is to decide who is using language in the correct way. At times the structure and weight of her sentences require deep commitment, at others her mockery of other strains of green philosophy such as what she calls `deep-pocket ecology' evince more than a chuckle.
Essentially this is the book I should have written years ago, not for want of trying. It is supremely difficult to write a book which encompasses everything but with the tool of language which is admittedly limiting. I cannot think of anyone who makes a better stab at it. She manages this because she lives the reality she describes. The rhetoric and the descriptive prose reel off her pen with a slipperiness and impact which stimulates and yet gnaws at the base of the spine. To read this, digest it fully [I have not managed this yet after three years], and remain unmoved is impossible. The slightest brush with this great writer will leave the truly open-minded seeker for harmony with nature in an ecstatic trance.
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Val Plumwood's new way of thinking for new way of being with nature
13 April 2008
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Dr Val Plumwood, one of Australia's original and creative environmental philosophers died from a heart attack at her home, Plumwood Mountain in NSW on 29th February 2008. Her lifetime contribution to philosophy, feminism and democracy is sincerely articulated by Freya Mathews (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) @[...]
Many philosophers are concerned with a better way of reasoning other than the adversarial and hierarchical modes that have dominated our Western culture. Val Plumwood's professional and personal quest was to explain and overcome this institutionalised flawed reasoning. Her convincing critique of western philosophy in her 'Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason' provides the foundation for her arguments in the early chapters of this book against our contemporary rational justifications of our androcentric and anthropocentric hegemony over nature, women and indigenous cultures. Plumwood then goes on to construct an argument for a better way to reason that builds on and acknowledges our existential indebtedness to what has been subjugated in order to live fulfilled lives in and with nature.
For a pod cast recently aired on Australia's national broadcaster see Radio National program about Val Plumwood @[...]
Many philosophers are concerned with a better way of reasoning other than the adversarial and hierarchical modes that have dominated our Western culture. Val Plumwood's professional and personal quest was to explain and overcome this institutionalised flawed reasoning. Her convincing critique of western philosophy in her 'Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason' provides the foundation for her arguments in the early chapters of this book against our contemporary rational justifications of our androcentric and anthropocentric hegemony over nature, women and indigenous cultures. Plumwood then goes on to construct an argument for a better way to reason that builds on and acknowledges our existential indebtedness to what has been subjugated in order to live fulfilled lives in and with nature.
For a pod cast recently aired on Australia's national broadcaster see Radio National program about Val Plumwood @[...]
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