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Laddar... Being Ecologicalav Timothy Morton
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Timothy Morten makes an inspired, impassioned case that we all tend to think about ecology the wrong way. We pay too much attention to "factoids," formulations prepared via collective thinking to sound "truthily" in the know. So far so good. But when he tries to tackle how we should think about ecology, he lapses into literal incoherence. He runs riot with relativity and categorical inclusiveness. He wants to honor the infinity of perspectives and contexts any object may have; but beyond that, leaves little or no purchase on what he's actually arguing for. Can he be saying that the only way to think (and talk) about ecology is not to make sense at all? ( ) A really lovely book that somehow manages to make Kant sound appealing. Morton unpacks the history of "ecological thought", the various difficulties with undertaking it and the styles of it that don't do what they claim. He also indicates how to attune to various aspects of your life - just as you're loving it - that are already 'ecological'. I've really enjoyed the experience of what felt like being in the flow of Tim's teaching. I'm tempted to go back and take notes so I've got some hope of thinking more like Tim seems to think. Strongly recommended. Frequently headspinning but definitely opened to my mind to alternative ways of looking at the world. Morton writes in a very engaging, readable style (even when digging into some pretty heavy philosophy) and his mind zaps around different ideas, references and thoughts almost constantly - if the book was any longer it'd be utterly exhausting but the small size works well. Less a green self-help book and more a philisophical rehabilitation of Nazi-loving Heidegger. Good to read now, before the oh-so-achingly-of-their-time references become unintelligible. A possible recommended read? That's unfair. I raced through the first hundred pages enjoying the philosophy tour. Then I saw some reviews about the wearying prose which I let get to me. And now I can't review this book cleanly. Which, given its ecological moral feels apt. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir. Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while yelling disturbing facts. Handwringing in agony about "What are we going to do?" This book has none of that. Being Ecological doesn't preach to the eco-choir. It's for you--even, Timothy Morton explains, if you're not in the choir, even if you have no idea what choirs are. You might already be ecological. After establishing the approach of the book (no facts allowed!), Morton draws on Kant and Heidegger to help us understand living in an age of mass extinction caused by global warming. He considers the object of ecological awareness and ecological thinking: the biosphere and its interconnections. He discusses what sorts of actions count as ecological--starting a revolution? going to the garden center to smell the plants? And finally, in "Not a Grand Tour of Ecological Thought," he explores a variety of current styles of being ecological--a range of overlapping orientations rather than preformatted self-labeling. Caught up in the us-versus-them (or you-versus-everything else) urgency of ecological crisis, Morton suggests, it's easy to forget that you are a symbiotic being entangled with other symbiotic beings. Isn't that being ecological? Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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