Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of EmotionRoutledge, 1 sep. 2003 - 192 sidor As the full effects of human activity on Earth's life-support systems are revealed by science, the question of whether we can change, fundamentally, our relationship with nature becomes increasingly urgent. Just as important as an understanding of our environment, is an understanding of ourselves, of the kinds of beings we are and why we act as we do. In Loving Nature Kay Milton considers why some people in Western societies grow up to be nature lovers, actively concerned about the welfare and future of plants, animals, ecosystems and nature in general, while others seem indifferent or intent on destroying these things. Drawing on findings and ideas from anthropology, psychology, cognitive science and philosophy, the author discusses how we come to understand nature as we do, and above all, how we develop emotional commitments to it. Anthropologists, in recent years, have tended to suggest that our understanding of the world is shaped solely by the culture in which we live. Controversially Kay Milton argues that it is shaped by direct experience in which emotion plays an essential role. The author argues that the conventional opposition between emotion and rationality in western culture is a myth. The effect of this myth has been to support a market economy which systematically destroys nature, and to exclude from public decision making the kinds of emotional attachments that support more environmentally sensitive ways of living. A better understanding of ourselves, as fundamentally emotional beings, could give such ways of living the respect they need. |
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The personal and the impersonal | 19 |
The emotional and the rational | 21 |
The way forward | 23 |
Part 1 | 77 |
Other bases of identification | 78 |
Emotions feelings and consciousness | 79 |
Emotions personhood and identification | 81 |
Identification and selfrealization | 83 |
Personhood and the enjoyment of nature | 86 |
Part 2 | 87 |
VALUING NATURE Meaning emotion and the sacred | 92 |
THE NATURALNESS OF IDEAS | 26 |
Persons nonpersons and nature protection | 27 |
Representations metaphors and knowledge | 31 |
Personhood as a natural idea | 33 |
Persons and the theory of mind | 36 |
An assessment | 37 |
KNOWING NATURE THROUGH EXPERIENCE | 40 |
Perception and knowledge | 42 |
Perceiving persons | 44 |
Getting to know nature | 48 |
ENJOYING NATURE | 55 |
Conservation and the enjoyment of nature | 56 |
The naturalness of emotion | 58 |
Biophilia and domainspecific emotions | 60 |
Enjoying nature through experience | 62 |
Emotion perception and memory | 64 |
Emotion and selfperception | 66 |
Emotions in their social setting | 68 |
Learning to enjoy nature | 70 |
IDENTIFYING WITH NATURE | 73 |
Identification and deep ecology | 74 |
Value in anthropology psychology and philosophy | 93 |
Value and meaning | 95 |
Meaning and emotion | 98 |
Emotion and the sacred | 101 |
Sacredness identity and selfrealization | 105 |
PROTECTING NATURE Wildness diversity and personhood | 110 |
Protecting natures independence | 112 |
Protecting diversity and personhood in nature | 115 |
Diversity and personhood in harmony | 118 |
Diversity and personhood in conflict | 123 |
PROTECTING NATURE Science and the sacred | 129 |
Emotion and rationality | 130 |
Emotion rationality and capitalism | 134 |
Science and scenery | 135 |
A tale of two mountains | 139 |
CONCLUSION | 147 |
NOTES | 152 |
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