Pandemic and the Nature-Alienated Self
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3602319 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander J B Hampton (0000-0001-9427-6822, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 575 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13070575 |
| OpenAlex | W4283262675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This consideration of COVID-19 places the pandemic in the larger context of our present-day ontology and the environmentally destructive human-nature relationship that characterizes it, exploring it in three parts. First, it sets out the problematic conceptualization of nature in the modern social imaginary by focusing upon the self in terms of its sense of identity, agency and authority. Second, it sets out how the pandemic fundamentally disrupts these three facets of the self in terms of the fragilization of economic values, the notion of unique human agency, and the limitation of the authority of discursive reason. Finally, it concludes by outlining the opportunity for a renewed relationship with nature by proposing the recovery of the premodern concepts of metaphysical participation, teleology, and rational intuition. In doing so, the pandemic crisis is considered in the wider context of the ecological crisis of the modern age, and as an opportunity for rethinking our collective concept of nature, and the place of our selves within it
Conceptualization · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Intentionality · Intuition · Metaphysics · Pandemic · Social science · Sociology · Teleology · The Imaginary · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |