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(1998) Philosophies of nature: the human dimension, Dordrecht, Springer.
In spite of its frivolous title, this paper has a serious purpose. I would like to suggest that, in their original intent, phenomenology and ecology are mutually supportive, but that whenever they yield to a nostalgic longing to return to a purity of Beyng or Nature, their interrelation becomes destructive. An ecological philosophy appears to me viable only within reality perceived phenomenologically, as life's world, while the moral implications of such a conception inevitably lead to ecological conclusions. However, in their romantic mode, phenomenology and ecology can become locked in a pathological co-dependency which ultimately leads to a metacrisis.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2614-6_15
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Kohák, E. (1998)., Phenomenology and ecology: dependence and co-dependency, in R. S. Cohen & A. Tauber (eds.), Philosophies of nature: the human dimension, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 209-219.
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