How to Move Beyond the Human: Toward an Epistemological Tactic for a Decolonizing Human Distinctiveness
The article briefly introduces an academic debate between two different responses to the predicament of the human in the ecological crisis, namely the object-oriented ontology and the vitalist response to that approach. Based on that introduction, it argues for the need of a complementing analytical...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue on The Idea of Human Distinctiveness: Unavoidable or Untenable?" (Seite 613-738) |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2023
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| In: |
Sophia
Year: 2023, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, Pages: 697-708 |
| Further subjects: | B
Critical Theory
B Ecotheory B Epistemology B Vitalism B Decoloniality B Ecology B Object oriented ontology |
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| Summary: | The article briefly introduces an academic debate between two different responses to the predicament of the human in the ecological crisis, namely the object-oriented ontology and the vitalist response to that approach. Based on that introduction, it argues for the need of a complementing analytical tool and sketches the contours of such a tool by suggesting an epistemological tactic for a decolonizing human distinctiveness. The article suggests an analytical maneuver to be used by scholars who aim at decolonizing nature from human oppression, a tool that enables illumination and critical scrutiny of the epistemological role of the human as one stage toward destabilizing the notion of human distinctiveness. The article, thus, introduces an approach where human distinctiveness is not understood as a factual distinctiveness - not an essential difference between the human and the nonhuman world - but where human distinctiveness is critically viewed as a discursive role in theoretical work, a role that can be temporarily put to use by the scholar as a decolonizing epistemological tactic. In other words, human distinctiveness is here tactically used as a tool to critically scrutinize the idea of human distinctiveness rather than to safeguard it. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-023-00999-4 |