The withering of shared life through the loss of biodiversity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3072003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominique Lestel (École normale supérieure, Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 307-325 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0539018413478325 |
| OpenAlex | W2047967979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 18 |
The article defends a conception of ecology that considers what ecosystems mean not only in themselves but also for themselves. Each living being is thus a message for another living being, and not merely a functional piece in a physical process of energy exchange or in an evolutionary process in which individual reproduction is all that counts. The article deems that the hatred of the animal kingdom characteristic of Western history and the resulting atrophy of our imagination of the living world explain our blindness. The author suggests Westerners should be more open to non-Western ways of thinking, which might help overcome their difficulty in thinking through the existential, ethical and cultural stakes involved in the present collapse of biodiversity
Aesthetics · Biodiversity · Biology · Blindness · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Existentialism · Hatred · Political science · Reproduction · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ecology
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The withering of shared life through the loss of biodiversity
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |