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title = "A Defense for the Concept of Nature",
abstract = "The concept of nature is under attack from a number of contemporary researchers on ecology. This seems alarming in light of the current struggle to establish the anthropogenic, i.e., non-natural origin of climate change and mass extinction. This paper selects three examples of {\textquoteleft}nature denial{\textquoteright} by influential writers—Steven Vogel, Timothy Morton, and Bruno Latour—and tries to show that without a concept of nature, their theories are incoherent. Finally, the paper turns to Gernot B{\"o}hme for a philosophy of body and nature that can evade the aporias in which the three other writers are entangled.",
keywords = "nature, human being, human-nonhuman-relation, body, Anthropocene, climate, environmental epistemology, Vogel, Morton, Latour, B{\"o}hme.",
author = "Sune Fr{\o}lund",
year = "2022",
month = jul,
day = "8",
language = "English",
journal = "Danish Yearbook of Philosophy",
issn = "0070-2749",
publisher = "Museum Tusculanum Press",
}
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T1 - A Defense for the Concept of Nature
AU - Frølund, Sune
PY - 2022/7/8
Y1 - 2022/7/8
N2 - The concept of nature is under attack from a number of contemporary researchers on ecology. This seems alarming in light of the current struggle to establish the anthropogenic, i.e., non-natural origin of climate change and mass extinction. This paper selects three examples of ‘nature denial’ by influential writers—Steven Vogel, Timothy Morton, and Bruno Latour—and tries to show that without a concept of nature, their theories are incoherent. Finally, the paper turns to Gernot Böhme for a philosophy of body and nature that can evade the aporias in which the three other writers are entangled.
AB - The concept of nature is under attack from a number of contemporary researchers on ecology. This seems alarming in light of the current struggle to establish the anthropogenic, i.e., non-natural origin of climate change and mass extinction. This paper selects three examples of ‘nature denial’ by influential writers—Steven Vogel, Timothy Morton, and Bruno Latour—and tries to show that without a concept of nature, their theories are incoherent. Finally, the paper turns to Gernot Böhme for a philosophy of body and nature that can evade the aporias in which the three other writers are entangled.
KW - nature, human being, human-nonhuman-relation, body, Anthropocene, climate, environmental epistemology, Vogel, Morton, Latour, Böhme.
M3 - Journal article
JO - Danish Yearbook of Philosophy
JF - Danish Yearbook of Philosophy
SN - 0070-2749
ER -
