Extending Plumwood's Critique of Rationalism Through Imagery and Metaphor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15021890 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hawkins Hawkins (Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 99 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics & the Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1085-6633 • E-ISSN: 1535-5306 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ete.2009.14.2.99 |
| OpenAlex | W2027290953 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Val Plumwood's criticism of the ecologically irrational p -centric logic of rationalism, which neglects or denies its dependence on all that is not-p, undercutting its own biological base while denying the illness of the culture it has spawned, is juxtaposed with the clinical picture of the linguistic left hemisphere acting without benefit of input from the more real-time-and-space-centered right. Exploring the metaphor suggests that visual gestalts depicting actual relationships might be effective in drawing our industrial culture's collective attention away from its fascination with endless lines of alphabetic characters and abstract numbers multiplying their way toward infinity, bringing it back to reality and ecological rationality. In illustration, ongoing habitat destruction wrought on the ground as humans follow the detached logic of economic rationalism is seen to reflect, rather than the illusion of eternal growth conveyed by Cartesian axes, the relentless finitude of fractal geometry's Sierpinski gasket
Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Rationalism · Sociology · Diverse Interdisciplinary Research Studies · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |