This Biosphere Which Is Not One
Towards Weird Essentialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8409883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Morton (0009-0006-4168-579X, Rice University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-155 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00071773.2014.960745 |
| OpenAlex | W2009578834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
This essay uses the thought of Luce Irigaray as a very powerful way to imagine what ecological beings such as meadows and whales are like. For reasons given yet implicit in Irigaray's work, it is possible to extend what she argues about woman to include any being whatsoever. In particular, it is shown that to exist is to defy the so-called law of noncontradiction. Various paradoxes demonstrate that in order to care for beings that we consider to be ecological, such as meadows, we had better relax our adherence to this “law.” Ecological beings are, like Irigaray's woman, not one and not two. They cannot be thought as constantly, presently themselves, or as decomposable into other beings – not without violence. A side effect of the argument is that we can now use Irigaray to think a multiplicity of sexualities and gender identities
Argument (complex analysis) · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Human sexuality · Order (exchange) · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Gender Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |