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ERIC Number: EJ1174971
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1857
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Spinoza, Deep Ecology and Education Informed by a (Post)Human Sensibility
Le Grange, Lesley
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v50 n9 p878-887 2018
This article explores the influence of Spinozism on the deep ecology movement (DEM) and on new materialism. It questions the stance of supporters of the DEM because their ecosophies unwittingly anthropomorphise the more-than-human-world. It suggests that instead of humanising the 'natural' world, morality should be naturalised, that is, that the object of human expression of ethics should be the more-than-human world. Moreover, the article discusses Deleuze's Spinozism that informs new materialism and argues that stripping the human of its ontological privilege does not deprive the human animal from its ethico-normative distinctiveness. Implications of the discussion for an education aimed at cultivating (post)human sensibilities are explored.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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