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Phenomenology and ecology

dependence and co-dependency

Erazim Kohák

pp. 209-219

Résumé

In spite of its frivolous title, this paper has a serious purpose. I would like to suggest that, in their original intent, phenomenology and ecology are mutually supportive, but that whenever they yield to a nostalgic longing to return to a purity of Beyng or Nature, their interrelation becomes destructive. An ecological philosophy appears to me viable only within reality perceived phenomenologically, as life's world, while the moral implications of such a conception inevitably lead to ecological conclusions. However, in their romantic mode, phenomenology and ecology can become locked in a pathological co-dependency which ultimately leads to a metacrisis.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Cohen Robert S, Tauber Alfred (1998) Philosophies of nature: the human dimension: in celebration of Erazim Kohák. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 209-219

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2614-6_15

Citation complète:

Kohák Erazim, 1998, Phenomenology and ecology: dependence and co-dependency. In R.S. Cohen & A. Tauber (eds.) Philosophies of nature: the human dimension (209-219). Dordrecht, Springer.