Manifesto for an ecology of difference.
Editions outside| N° d'inventaire | 23347 |
| Format | 11.5 x 20.5 |
| Détails | 144 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Bellevaux, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782367510262 |
How can we put an end to the relationship of domination and violence that we have with nature in general and animals in particular? Can we hope to achieve this by learning to reconcile ourselves with Life, which is supposed to fundamentally connect humans and animals, and to enter into resonance with a Nature that has ceased to speak to us? The aim of this Manifesto is to show the limits and weaknesses of the principle of such a solution by arguing for an ecology of difference. The animal, conceived as a sensitive and vulnerable being, deserving as such pity and compassion, is a philosophical abstraction which, under the guise of elevating the status of animals and guaranteeing them a form of moral and legal protection, begins by doing them violence by not respecting their fundamental otherness and the richness of their way of existence. The planet—even and perhaps more than ever in the age of the Anthropocene—also demands to be understood in its strangeness as a creative, potentially uncontrollable, and fundamentally unpredictable nature.
How can we put an end to the relationship of domination and violence that we have with nature in general and animals in particular? Can we hope to achieve this by learning to reconcile ourselves with Life, which is supposed to fundamentally connect humans and animals, and to enter into resonance with a Nature that has ceased to speak to us? The aim of this Manifesto is to show the limits and weaknesses of the principle of such a solution by arguing for an ecology of difference. The animal, conceived as a sensitive and vulnerable being, deserving as such pity and compassion, is a philosophical abstraction which, under the guise of elevating the status of animals and guaranteeing them a form of moral and legal protection, begins by doing them violence by not respecting their fundamental otherness and the richness of their way of existence. The planet—even and perhaps more than ever in the age of the Anthropocene—also demands to be understood in its strangeness as a creative, potentially uncontrollable, and fundamentally unpredictable nature.