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Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination (en Inglés)
Taylor Eggan
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Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination (en Inglés) - Eggan, Taylor
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Reseña del libro "Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination (en Inglés)"
The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity's displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis's homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought--and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being.Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology--along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world--produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature's defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger's phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"--an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.
