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The concept of nature is under attack from a number of contemporary researchers on ecology. This seems alarming considering the current struggle to establish the anthropogenic, i.e. non-natural origin of climate changes and mass extinction. The paper picks out three examples of “nature denial” from influential writers – Steven Vogel, Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour - and tries to show that without a concept of nature their theories are incoherent. Finally, the paper points to Gernot Böhme for a philosophy of body and nature that can evade the apories the three other writers are messed up in. The concept of nature is under attack from a number of contemporary researchers on ecology. This seems alarming in light of the current struggle to establish the anthropogenic, i.e., non-natural origin of climate change and mass extinction. This paper selects three examples of ‘nature denial’ by influential writers—Steven Vogel, Timothy Morton, and Bruno Latour—and tries to show that without a concept of nature, their theories are incoherent. Finally, the paper turns to Gernot Böhme for a philosophy of body and nature that can evade the aporias in which the three other writers are entangled. |
