TY  - GEN
T1  - Primitives in the wilderness : deep ecology and the missing human subject
A1  - Van Wyck, Peter C.
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocm42856467
AB  - In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory. With an eye to critically exposing unexamined essentialist and foundational commitments, the author shows how deep ecology remains profoundly entangled with the very traditions of thought it has sought to overcome. The author critically assesses deep ecology's relations with the Enlightenment, modernity, systems theory, anthropocentrism, the figure of wilderness and the trope of the primitive, and the imagined promise of posthistoric primitivism. He demonstrates the manner in which deep ecology (and much of contemporary environmental thought) has remained blind to the lessons (and possibilities) of contemporary social and poststructural theory. Drawing from an array of contemporary theoretical works (including Haraway's figure of the cyborg and situated knowledges, Deleuze's conception of an image of thought, Foucault's panopticon, Trinh on ethnographic authority, Lingis on the "Other," Torgovnick and Clastres's work on the primitive and power, and Vattimo's "weak thought"), van Wyck opens a clearing within which the ecological problematic and the question of the human subject may be rethought.
OP  - 186
CN  - GE195 .V36 1997eb
SN  - 0585092427
SN  - 9780585092423
SN  - 9781438422732
SN  - 1438422733
SN  - 0791434338
SN  - 0791434346
KW  - Deep ecology : Philosophy.
KW  - Human ecology : Philosophy.
KW  - Primitivism.
KW  - Écologie profonde : Philosophie.
KW  - Écologie humaine : Philosophie.
KW  - Primitivisme.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Human Geography.
KW  - Deep ecology : Philosophy
KW  - Human ecology : Philosophy
KW  - Primitivism
ER  -