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Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject

Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject

Van Wyck, Peter C.

Paperback

Environmental Studies

ISBN10: 0791434346
ISBN13: 9780791434345
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 31 1997
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.26 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory, showing that deep ecology still has much to learn from such theory.

In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory. With an eye to critically exposing unexamined essentialist and foundational commitments, the author shows how deep ecology remains profoundly entangled with the very traditions of thought it has sought to overcome. The author critically assesses deep ecology's relations with the Enlightenment, modernity, systems theory, anthropocentrism, the figure of wilderness and the trope of the primitive, and the imagined promise of posthistoric primitivism. He demonstrates the manner in which deep ecology (and much of contemporary environmental thought) has remained blind to the lessons (and possibilities) of contemporary social and poststructural theory.

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