The
anthropocentrism of the West has to give way to the Francis vision of a unified, interdependent world where all life forms are treated with respect and compassion.
The authors, taking up in various ways Derrida's notion of justice beyond law, examine everything from Matthias Fritsch's discussion of eco-deconstructive normativity and its relation to "value" in nature (chapter 12) to Carey Wolfe's appeal to Dawne McCance's exposure of speciesism and
anthropocentrism in utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethics (chapter 13) to Wallace Steven's poetry as a source for ethics, highlighting the unique vulnerability and finitude of living beings (chapter 14) to Kelly Oliver's proposal for "earth ethics" (chapter 15).--Cynthia R.
She is interested in
anthropocentrism and how this ethos has created a divide between Man and Nature, an issue that sits at the heart of climate change.
The outcome text of the JPIC Convocation also included a critique of
anthropocentrism:
Conversely, Brassier maintains Land's initial notion of death as the transcendental critique of
anthropocentrism, but instead links it to cosmology's insight into the solar system's eventual demise beyond anthropic political processes within our control.
Anthropocentrism, or human-centeredness, is a belief system that privileges humans and functions to maintain the superiority of human existence by marginalizing and subjugating anything nonhuman (Plumwood, 1993, 2002).
Saville's wide-ranging analysis of the categories of "species" and "soul" in "
Anthropocentrism and the Soul of Hopkins's Ecopoetics." Surveying poems, Oxford essays from the mid-1860s, and sermons from the late 1870s, Saville demonstrates how Hopkins consistently advocates the "change in consciousness" necessary if "
anthropocentrism" and its damages (environmental degradation, ruinous climate change, species' extinction) are to be reversed.
Their topics include narrating in fluid frames: overcoming
anthropocentrism in Zora Neale Hurston's early short fiction on rivers, reframing sacred natural sites as national monuments in Estonia: shifts in nature-culture interactions, chemical unknowns: preliminary outline for an environmental history of fear, cognitivist film theory and the biocultural turn in eco-film studies, and the nature study idea: framing nature for children in early 20th-century schools.
To address a past article in this publication, "When the Human in Humanism Isn't Enough" (M/A 2016), we need to overcome the serious problem of
anthropocentrism. Fifteen thousand scientists just issued a dire warning about the problems that particular issue is causing.
In particular, the book puts the representation of animals in narrative texts and films in relation to the most engaging philosophical theories (Agamben, Deleuze, Derrida, Haraway, Marchesini) that deal with the notion of the non-human and the concept of
anthropocentrism, which locates man at the center of the world.
An appraisal of the critique of
anthropocentrism and three lesser known themes in Lynn White's The historical roots of our ecologic crisis.