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Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships: Beyond Dualisms, Materialism and Posthumanism

Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships: Beyond Dualisms, Materialism and Posthumanism

Kessler, Neil H.

Hardcover

Series: Aess Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences

Environmental StudiesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 3319992732
ISBN13: 9783319992730
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 20 2018
Pages: 343
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships, Neil H. Kessler identifies the preconceptions which can keep the modern human mind in the dark about what is happening relationally between humans and the more-than-human world. He has written an accessible work of environmental philosophy, with a focus on the ontology of human-nature relationships. In it, he contends that large-scale environmental problems are intimate and relational in origin. He also challenges the deeply embedded, modernist assumptions about the relational limitations of more-than-human beings, ones which place erroneous limitations on the possibilities for human/more-than-human closeness. Diverging from the posthumanist literature and its frequent reliance on new materialist ontology, the arguments in the book attempt to sweep away what ecofeminists call human/nature dualisms. In doing so, conceptual avenues open up that have the power to radically alter how we engage in our daily interactions with the more-than-human world all around us.

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