Conclusion: the Horizon of Nature

Alžbeta Kuchtová

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Conclusion: the Horizon of Nature

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Pages:: 276–313

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004701465_008

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The conclusion starts by taking a position towards eco-phenomenology and its relation to post-colonial thinking and feminism. It questions the distinction between desire and need, which is still present in contemporary ecologically oriented phenomenology (Renaud Barbaras) but is overcome in the work of Hans Jonas. The ungraspable is defined here as an interruption of Western phenomenological consciousness that is expressed in the appropriative movements of a human body. The ungraspable is rethought in relation to Sara Ahmed’s “queer objects,” as an experience of climbing a mountain, observing the horizon, but it is also to be found in mass-produced objects. The conclusion accentuates the concept of forgetting one’s own being in the environment, in contrast to toxic grasping. The distinction between natural and artificial objects is deconstructed here, emphasizing “more-than-living” objects such as technical objects (Gilbert Simondon) and mass-produced objects. These are also ungraspable and should be rethought in environmental ethics, since they play a crucial role in the politics of pollution and of toxic liberalism (concerning decomposition, waste, overconsumption, and the radical resistance of objects to grasping).

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The Ungraspable as a Philosophical Problem

The Stubborn Persistence of Humanism in Contemporary Phenomenology

Series: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy, Volume: 5

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Print Publication Date:: 20 Jun 2024

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