Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature: Negotiating the Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367728496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Angela Roothaan

Opis

Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature contributes to the young field of intercultural philosophy by introducing the perspective of critical and postcolonial thinkers who have focused on systematic racism, power relations, and the intersection of cultural identity and political struggle.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. A World of Motion and Emergence: an Outline of what’s at stake











2. Ending the Othering of Indigenous Knowledge in Philosophy and the Ontological Turn in Cultural Anthropology











3. When the Spirits were banned: Kant versus Swedenborg











4. The Return of (animal) Spirits in the Modern Western World











5. Deconstructing or Decolonizing the Human–Animal Divide











6. Vital Force: A Belgico-African Missionary’s Spirited Philosophy











7. Decolonizing Nature: the Case of the Mourning Elephants











8. Spirited Trees – Negotiating secular, religious and traditionalist frameworks











9. Blurred, Spirited and Touched: from ‘the Study of Man’ to an Anim(al)istic Anthropology

References

Index

O autorze

Angela Roothaan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on African intercultural philosophy, philosophy of values and spirit ontologies. She has published books (in Dutch) on Spinoza, on nature in ethics, on truth, on spirituality and on ghosts/spirits in modern culture. Together with P. Nullens and S. van den Heuvel she published the edited volume Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena: The Experience of Values (Routledge, 2017). Her philosophical blog can be found here: http://angelaroothaan.wordpress.com