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Revolution for Nature: From the Environment to the Connatural World (Philosophy and the Environment Series No 3) - Softcover
Synopsis
One of Germany's leading environmental thinkers explains his holistic alternative to the “incomplete Enlightenment” of the dominant western world view—to join together as global citizens and consumers, treating all purchasing choices as ethical, and withdrawing our spending from an economic system which threatens the very foundations of life on earth.
Revolution for Nature combines a provocative historical and philosophical analysis with practical recommendations both for the lifestyle changes of reformed consumers, and for the political constitution of the Nature State of the future.
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Saving the environment requires urgent political and economic action, and a radical change in our perception of nature. The environment is not a resource for humans, since it and we are equally parts of nature's whole. We cannot harm the rest of this whole-the 'connatural world'-without also harming ourselves. In Revolution for Nature, Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich explains his holistic alternative to the 'incomplete Enlightenment' of the dominant western world-view. Completion, and salvation, can only come if we recognize and fulfil our responsibility towards everything in nature. We must join together as global citizens and consumers in a revolution for nature, treating all purchasing choices as ethical, and withdrawing our spending from an economic system which threatens the very foundations of life on earth. Revolution for Nature combines a provocative historical and philosophical analysis with practical recommendations both for the lifestyle changes of reformed consumers, and for the political constitution of the Nature State of the future.
About the Author
KLAUS MICHAEL MEYER-ABICH was Professor of the Philosophy of Nature at the University and the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen. He also played an active part in German politics, as Minister for Science and Research for the state of Hamburg, and as a member of the Enquete Commission of the German parliament on the protection of the atmosphere.
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- PublisherUniversity of North Texas Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0929398696
- ISBN 13 9780929398693
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages145
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