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Niki Young. De-Anthropocentrism and Onto-Taxonomy: An Ecological View[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2022, 5(2): 39-57. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225203
Citation: Niki Young. De-Anthropocentrism and Onto-Taxonomy: An Ecological View[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2022, 5(2): 39-57. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225203

De-Anthropocentrism and Onto-Taxonomy: An Ecological View

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20225203
  • Received Date: 2021-06-30
  • Accepted Date: 2022-01-23
  • There is little question that issues such as accelerating climate change, environmental degradation, rainforest depletion, and pollution have anthropogenic causes, and that these factors put the survival of the human species in jeopardy. In response to this, one often hears and reads about the urgent need to "save Mother Nature," or claims related to the fact that humans are ultimately "part of Nature" and therefore vulnerable to it. Arguably, these seemingly innocuous and tautological claims mask a precarious "onto-taxonomical" assumption, a term coined by Graham Harman in order to emphasise the broadly diffused tendency to postulate an a-priori difference between humans and nature. In this paper, I seek to achieve two specific goals:first, I consider Harman's underdeveloped yet important notion of "onto-taxonomy," framing it in relation to issues pertaining to anthropocentrism, the Anthropocene, and ecology. Second, I shall defend Harman's position against specific ecological criticisms of his philosophy in order to hold that Object-Oriented Philosophy(OOP) is in fact especially well-suited for a radical revaluation of ecological thinking more generally and our present state more specifically..
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