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The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A manifesto for the future (Routledge Environmental Humanities)
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About The Philosophical Foundations Of Ecological
Product Description The global ecological crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever had to confront, and humanity is failing. The triumph of the neo-liberal agenda, together with a debauched ‘scientism’, has reduced nature and people to nothing but raw materials, instruments and consumers to be efficiently managed in a global market dominated by corporate managers, media moguls and technocrats. The arts and the humanities have been devalued, genuine science has been crippled, and the quest for autonomy and democracy undermined. The resultant trajectory towards global ecological destruction appears inexorable, and neither governments nor environmental movements have significantly altered this, or indeed, seem able to. The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization is a wide-ranging and scholarly analysis of this failure.This book reframes the dynamics of the debate beyond the discourses of economics, politics and techno-science. Reviving natural philosophy to align science with the humanities, it offers the categories required to reform our modes of existence and our institutions so that we augment, rather than undermine, the life of the ecosystems of which we are part. From this philosophical foundation, the author puts forth a manifesto for transforming our culture into one which could provide an effective global environmental movement and provide the foundations for a global ecological civilization. Review "Gare’s outstanding environmental Manifesto should be widely meditated at a time of looming human extinction. By philosophers; who so often tend to forget their Socratic roots. By academics, so that they may recover a healthy sense of duty and reverence for life in general, and education in particular. By scientists, of course, in order to come to grips with the presuppositions and the too many nefarious consequences of their discipline. And, perhaps more importantly, by educated people. Gare’s common-sensical and pragmatic approach ―albeit sophisticated― is urgently needed to trigger a cultural epoch adequate to the current challenges."Dr. Michel Weber, The Centre for Philosophical Practice."Arran Gare has written a passionate, urgently needed, and compelling manifesto to help us avoid a global, imminent, ecological catastrophe. Widely and deeply researched, this book is a challenge and a wake-up call for philosophers and non-philosophers alike. He joins theory and practice to show the inadequacy of most contemporary philosophies and economic/political policies for creating "an ecologically sustainable civilization." William S. Hamrick,Southern Illinois University."In the modern value free research university, history of any kind is reduced to information about this or that past event. The effort to understand what is happening by describing the way the present has come to be has been largely excluded at a time when such understanding is essential for wise response to unprecedented global crises. When universities awaken from their dogmatic slumber, Gare's account of the history of thought will become the classic basis for building new institutions responding to urgent needs." John Cobb Jr.,Claremont School of Theology."Gare’s Manifesto is a clarion sounding against nihilism. Prevailing technoscience is a monism built upon minimalist models that yields only heat death in the long term and human extirpation in the more immediate future. Gare posits instead a "speculative naturalism" that explores a dialectical worldview in terms of those feedbacks among social and material processes that provide meaning and ‘happiness’ in terms of a life fulfilled. A philosophical and ecological guide to survival in necrophilic times!" Robert E. Ulanowicz, University of Florida."In his sweeping survey of the damage done to Life and Thought by the predominant modern interpretation of naturalism called scientism, Arran Gare outlines a radically nonmodern `speculative naturalism. To this end Gare examines the
