Theology as a Pseudo-Ecology? Reply to Manussos Marangudakis

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1999 (115):95-109 (1999)
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Manussos Marangudakis traces the roots of environmental concern within both Left and Right political thought.1 He examines the anti-technological and occasionally authoritarian stances of Hamsun, Williamson, Haeckel and Heidegger, and their associations with National Socialism, and compares them to the more recent ideologies of Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, Eco-Socialism and Social Ecology, and their politics of egalitarianism, equality and autonomy. He concludes that, insofar as ecologists have opted for nature as the prominent pole in the nature and culture divide, their politics has become a pseudo-religion, with “the natural” providing the objective and transcendent source of a new politics and ethics:…

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