The End of Nature and the Conflict between Eco-Social Imaginaries

This article examines the conflict between eco-social imaginaries through the lens of Sellars’s distinction between the manifest and the scientific images. It first addresses the debate on the “end of nature,” questioning the advisability of abandoning the concept of nature. Drawing on Hegel, Benjamin, and niche construction theory, it argues that a dialectical account of the organism-environment relation can complement the compositionist perspective advanced by Bruno Latour and further developed by Donna Haraway. Finally, the Anthropocene is interpreted as an emblematic case requiring a dialectical rethinking of the tension between anthropocentric and compositionist eco-imaginaries

Anthropocene · Anthropocentrism · Complement (music) · Dialectic · Perspective (graphical) · Relation (database) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation