Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships Beyond Dualisms, Materialism and Posthumanism /

• Main Author: Kessler, Neil H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series,
• Subjects: Environmental sciences-Philosophy.; Natural resources.; Environmental education.; Human geography.; Environmental Philosophy.; Natural Resources.; Environmental and Sustainability Education.; Human Geography.

In Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships, Neil H. Kessler identifies the preconceptions which can keep the modern human mind in the dark about what is happening relationally between humans and the more-than-human world. He has written an accessible work of environmental philosophy, wi...

Table of Contents:

• Part I.Understandings of Human-Nature Relationships
• 1.Ontology and Human-Nature Relationships
• 2.Ecofeminist Dualisms
• 3.Posthumanism's Material Problem
• Part II.Dualism and Relational Structure
• 4.Human-Nature Relationship Model
• 5.Dualist Effects on Structure and Dynamics
• Part III.Human-Nature Relational Ontology
• 6.Foundations of Human-Nature Relational Ontology
• 7.Relational perception and knowledge
• 8.Material and More-than-material Considerations
• Part IV.Vectors of Interdependence
• 9.Feelings
• 10.Thoughts
• 11.Conclusion: An Example of Modern Closeness?.