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Enlightenment ideals of progress and development, contingent on a political economy that privileges endless growth, have also led to the degradation of the natural environment (Merchant, 1980; Ophuls, 1997).

Enlightenment rationality is deeply embedded in the idea of Empire, whose mission involved political subjugation of those it sought to empower and civilize. There appears to be little awareness among Enlightenment thinkers that their much-celebrated use of reason created new forms of domination, even more insidious than coercive power because these... See more

Ecological values may be contextualized within broader cosmo-ontological perspectives. Relationships between humans and nonhumans have been described within a “household” model of the cosmos, one which requires a sympoietic (making with) orientation (Haraway, 2016) to a profound entanglement in the web of life. This is no small task amid a sixth

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