عنوان

Letting the World Grow Old:

Number

LA129753

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Letting the World Grow Old:

General Material Designation

[Article]

Other Title Information

An Ethos of Countermodernity1

First Statement of Responsibility

Freya Mathews

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

'Nature' may be understood, for environmental purposes, as whatever happens when we, or other agents under the direction of abstract thought, let things be. From this point of view it is accordingly never too late to 'return to nature'. To do so is not to restore a lost set of things or attributes, but rather to allow a certain process to begin anew. This process recommences whenever that which already exists - whether it be of nonhuman or human provenance - is permitted to endure. 'Environmentalism' is thus conceived in broadly Taoist rather than ecological terms, as involving the affirmation of the given. 'Nature' may be understood, for environmental purposes, as whatever happens when we, or other agents under the direction of abstract thought, let things be. From this point of view it is accordingly never too late to 'return to nature'. To do so is not to restore a lost set of things or attributes, but rather to allow a certain process to begin anew. This process recommences whenever that which already exists - whether it be of nonhuman or human provenance - is permitted to endure. 'Environmentalism' is thus conceived in broadly Taoist rather than ecological terms, as involving the affirmation of the given.

Date of Publication

1999

Physical description

119-137

Title

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Volume Number

3/2

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5357

Freya Mathews

Call Number

10.1163/156853599X00108

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[Article]

275578

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