The Conceptual Autopoiēsis of Language-Habits and Language-Cultures that Orient Humans as Separate from Nature
Description:
In this dissertation I consider the nature of the relationship between orientation and language-habits in the context of environmental ethics. Specifically, I focus on the problem of orientation as a way of understanding the unabated trend of anthropocentrism in the dominant Western language-culture. Orientation operates as the attitudes, beliefs, and feelings in relation to something that we embody in our lived experiences. One way that we communicate our orientation in relation to the land is…
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Date:
August 2019
Creator:
Williams, Justin W