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Off the Grid
In Fritz Allhoff & Nathan Kowalsky (eds.), Hunting Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 239–251 (2010-09-24)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Hunting: A Rite of American Secular Religion Rights and the Burden of Ownership Off the Grid: Civilization's Joyous Discontent Big Green: The New Nonsense of the Eco‐Gentry Notes.Author's Profile
off the grid ‐ rights, religion and the rise of the eco‐gentry hunting, icon of the American secular religion of individual natural rights hunting as perfect symbol of American secular religion ‐ Walter Burkert in his book, Homo Necans (Slaughtering Man) Bentham's assertion that rights were merely “nonsense on stilts” ‐ human rights having to be true hunting is not conservation ‐ no hunter goes off into the woods to thin the herd secular religiosity of hunting big green ‐ the new nonsense of the eco‐gentry man, like Descartes' animal ‐ another “mineral” yearning bits of Earth's biosphere rituals of respect for the Cathedral ‐ worshipping Nature's God in the American sacrificial rite of slaughter, hunting
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