Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 467 g
Reihe: Law, Justice and Ecology
Reimagining the Human in the Anthropocene
Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 467 g
Reihe: Law, Justice and Ecology
ISBN: 978-0-367-51872-1
Verlag: Routledge
This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal theory structures the human–earth relationship.
As a complement to contemporary efforts to establish rights of nature and non-human legal personhood, this book focuses on the other subject in the human–earth relationship: the human. Critical ecological feminism exposes the dualistic nature of the ideal human legal subject as a key driver in the dynamic of instrumentalism that characterises the human–earth relationship in Western culture. This book draws on conceptual fields associated with the new sciences, including new materialism, posthuman critical theory and Big History, to demonstrate that the naturalised hierarchy of humans over nature in the Western social imaginary is anything but natural. It then sets about constructing a counternarrative. The proposed ‘Cosmic Person’ as alternative, non-dualised human legal subject forges a pathway for transforming the Western cultural understanding of the human–earth relationship from mastery and control to ideal co-habitation. Finally, the book details a case study, highlighting the practical application of the proposed reconceptualisation of the human legal subject to contemporary environmental issues.
This original and important analysis of the legal status of the human in the Anthropocene will be of great interest to those working in legal theory, jurisprudence, environmental law and the environmental humanities; as well as those with relevant interests in gender studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, critical theory and philosophy.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction 2. The Dualised Human-Earth Relationship of Western Culture 3. Law’s Role in the Human-Earth Relationship 4. The Legal Subject: Key Problem, Productive Point of Intervention 5. Introducing the Cosmic Person as Posthuman Legal Subject 6. Conclusion
