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Author Van Wyck, Peter C.

Title Primitives in the wilderness : deep ecology and the missing human subject / Peter C. van Wyck
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description viii, 186 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The Move to the Outside -- 2. Ecology/System/Totality -- 3. Displacing the Humans -- 4. Boundary Disputes
Summary In Primitives in the Wilderness, Peter van Wyck brings the radical environmentalism known as deep ecology into an encounter with contemporary social and cultural theory. With an eye to critically exposing unexamined essentialist and foundational commitments, the author shows how deep ecology remains profoundly entangled with the very traditions of thought it has sought to overcome. The author critically assesses deep ecology's relations with the Enlightenment, modernity, systems theory, anthropocentrism, the figure of wilderness and the trope of the primitive, and the imagined promise of posthistoric primitivism. He demonstrates the manner in which deep ecology (and much of contemporary environmental thought) has remained blind to the lessons (and possibilities) of contemporary social and poststructural theory
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index
Subject Deep ecology -- Philosophy.
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
Primitivism.
LC no. 97003612
ISBN 0791434338 (alk. paper)
0791434346 (paperback: alk. paper)