The Struggle for Natureoutlines and examines the main aspects of current environmental philosophy including deep ecology, social and political ecology, eco-feminism and eco-anarchism. It criticizes the dependency on science of these philosophies and the social problems engendered by them. Jozef Keulartz argues for a post-naturalistic turn in environmental philosophy.The Struggle for Naturepresents the most up-to-date arguments in environmental philosophy, which will be valuable reading for anyone interested in applied philosophy, environmental studies or geography.

Jozef Keulartz is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Philosophy at Wageningen Agricultural University

Prologue: Towards a post-naturalist environmental philosophy

1

(22)

The anarchist solution

2

(4)

The ecocentric proposal

6

(5)

The other Kehre of Hannah Arendt

11

(2)

Biopower and communicative power

13

(1)

The power theory perspective

14

(2)

The broken light of truth

16

(3)

The language philosophy perspective

19

(4)

PART I Between biology and biopower

23

(68)

Archaeology of the ecological gaze

23

(2)

1 The discovery of the environment

25

(15)

Natural history

25

(2)

The Janus face of physico-theology

27

(3)

The epistemological precedence of botany

30

(2)

The birth of biology

32

(3)

The struggle for life

35

(3)

Biology enters the political arena

38

(2)

2 The emergence of biopower

40

(12)

From sovereign power to biopower

40

(3)

The family between coercion and seduction

43

(2)

Hygeia and Victoria

45

(2)

Two types of pseudo-sciences

47

(2)

Foucault's blind spot

49

(3)

3 From Patrick Geddes to Lewis Mumford

52

(18)

Sociology on a biological foundation

53

(1)

Anabolism and catabolism

54

(2)

The natural region as the cradle of the town

56

(3)

Palaeotechnics and neotechnics

59

(3)

Urbane and rustic intelligence

62

(1)

The cuckoo chick Mumford

63

(2)

The city in history

65

(3)

Mumford's influence

68

(2)

4 Letchworth in Limburg

70

(21)

The Garden City

71

(3)

The twin god Howard-Geddes

74

(1)

Sodom-on-the-Maas

75

(3)

The miners' colony as a management tool

78

(3)

Anarchy = order

81

(5)

Dream or nightmare?

86

(5)

PART II Between science and ideology

91

(66)

A critique of ecological reason

91

(2)

5 Scarcity and equality

93

(16)

From organic to ecological society

94

(3)

The scales of justice

97

(1)

Gender and sex

98

(2)

Mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism

100

(3)

Revelation

103

(4)

Only violence?

107

(2)

6 Classical anarchism and eco-anarchism

109

(15)

Freedom as moral self-direction

110

(1)

Science as the master of ethics

111

(3)

Between anachronism and scientism

114

(2)

Neo-Stoicism in social and deep ecology

116

(4)

From positivism to holism

120

(4)

7 Holism and totalitarianism

124

(19)

Whitehead's organicism

125

(5)

Smuts and holism

130

(5)

Holism and ecology

135

(5)

The totalitarian temptation

140

(3)

8 Separate ways

143

(14)

Climax or civilization

143

(4)

`New Ecology'

147

(3)

Social ecology as pastiche

150

(2)

The fable of the climax

152

(1)

Stability versus persistence

153

(1)

Ostrich politics

154

(3)

Epilogue: Towards a democratic landscape

157

(18)

Power to the primitive imagination

159

(2)

The paradox of nature development

161

(3)

The new coalition

164

(1)

The smothered differend

165

(4)

Suppressed litigation

169

(4)

Concluding remarks

173

(2)

Bibliography

175

(7)

Indexes

182

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