Alienation and nature in environmental philosophy / Simon Hailwood, University of Liverpool.

"Many environmental scientists, scholars and activists characterise our situation as one of alienation from nature, but this notion can easily seem meaningless or irrational. In this book, Simon Hailwood critically analyses the idea of alienation from nature and argues that it can be a useful notion when understood pluralistically. He distinguishes different senses of alienation from nature pertaining to different environmental contexts and concerns, and draws upon a range of philosophical and environmental ideas and themes including pragmatism, eco-phenomenology, climate change, ecological justice, Marxism and critical theory. His novel perspective shows that different environmental concerns - both anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric - can dovetail with rather than compete with each other, and that our alienation from nature need not be something to be regretted or overcome. His book will interest a broad readership in environmental philosophy and ethics, political philosophy, geography and environmental studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 0.1 Environmental crisis and alienation from nature; 0.2 Pleistocene or Anthropocene?; 0.3 Humans and beavers; 0.4 Don't give up on the idea; 0.5 Main claim and overall argument; 0.6 What is to come; 1 Alienations and natures; 1.1 Types of alienation from nature and their main relations; 1.2 Some environmental concerns captured through estrangement; 1.3 Anthropocentric and nonanthropocentric; 1.4 Critical environmental philosophy and applied philosophy; 1.5 Property alienation

1.6 Estrangement is not always to be overcome: Bìro and Evernden1.7 Reification; 1.8 (Not) 'following nature'; 1.9 Constructionism; 1.10 Landscape; 1.11 Natural world and nonhuman nature; 1.12 The importance of matters of degree; 2 Pragmatists and sea squirts; 2.1 Elements of pragmatism; 2.2 The quest for certainty; 2.3 The sea squirt danger; 2.4 Constructionist nature scepticism and the quest for certainty; 2.5 Environmental pragmatism and nonanthropocentrism; 2.6 Pragmatism and constructionism; 2.7 Rorty's neopragmatism; 2.8 Neopragmatism and radical constructionism

2.9 Neopragmatism as anthropocentric instrumentalism2.10 Anti-essentialism, intrinsic value and giraffes; 2.11 Redescribing the pragmatist project; 2.12 Pragmatism, humanism and anthropocentrism; 3 Landscape; 3.1 Estrangement, alienation and reification within the landscape; 3.2 Justice and the forms of alienation; 3.3 Honneth on reification; 3.4 Landscapes as vehicles of recognition: Honneth on reification of 'nature'; 3.5 Examples of landscape reification; 3.6 Reification and environmental justice; 3.7 Reification, injustice and contestability; 3.8 Landscape as objective spirit

3.9 Climate change as unintended landscaping3.10 It makes a difference what we do; 3.11 Responsibility and reconciliation; 3.12 Estrangement and the practice of place; 3.13 Basic estrangement from the landscape; 4 Nonhuman nature: estrangement; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Estrangement and anti-domination; 4.3 Anti-domination and the Frankfurt School; 4.4 Nature, alienation and non-identity; 4.5 Labour, estrangement and domination; 4.6 Estrangement, anti-domination and recognition; 4.7 Extensionism, continuity and difference; 4.8 Too much continuity: deep ecology

4.9 Too much discontinuity: 'Man Apart'4.10 Continuity and difference both in play; 5 Nonhuman nature: alienation; 5.1 From estrangement to alienation; 5.2 Ownership and reification; 5.3 Concept of property; 5.4 Shaping the bundles; 5.5 Property derivations as landscaping devices; 5.6 Hegel, objective spirit and property; 5.7 Abstract right and anthropocentric instrumentalism; 5.8 The absolute sea squirt; 5.9 Unflattering disclosures; 5.10 Is collective ownership necessary?; 6 Estrangement from the natural world; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Misperception; 6.3 Honneth again; 6.4 Forgetting

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