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Letting the World Grow Old: An Ethos of Countermodernity1

In: Worldviews
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Freya Mathews School of Philosophy La Trobe University Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia

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01 Jan 1999
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Abstract

'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.

Title:
Letting the World Grow Old: An Ethos of Countermodernity1
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/156853599X00108
Language:
English
Pages:
119–137
In:
Worldviews
In:
Volume 3: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1568-5357
Print ISSN:
1363-5247
Subjects:
Sociology of Religion, Religious Studies, Religion & Society, Social Sciences, Ecology, Biology

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