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Auteur(s) : Vogel, Steven (1954-....)
Titre(s) : Thinking like a mall [Texte imprimé] : environmental philosophy after the end of nature / Steven Vogel
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-283 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Against nature ; The social construction of nature ; Alienation, nature, and the
environment ; The nature of artifacts ; Thinking like a mall ; The silence of nature
; Democracy and the commons.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 265-273. Index
Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But
if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental
thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven
Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept
of "nature" altogether and spoke instead of the "environment"--That is, the world
that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit.
We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold urged) as like a mall.
Shopping malls, too, are part of the environment and deserve as much serious consideration
from environmental thinkers as do mountains. Vogel argues provocatively that environmental
philosophy, in its ethics, should no longer draw a distinction between the natural
and the artificial and, in its politics, should abandon the idea that something beyond
human practices (such as "nature") can serve as a standard determining what those
practices ought to be. The appeal to nature distinct from the built environment, he
contends, may be not merely unhelpful to environmental thinking but in itself harmful
to that thinking. The question for environmental philosophy is not "how can we save
nature?" but rather "what environment should we inhabit, and what practices should
we engage in to help build it?"
Sujet(s) : Philosophie de la nature
Philosophie de l'environnement
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262029100. - ISBN 0262029103 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb444633595
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