- Title
- Ecological thinking: Schopenhauer, J M Coetzee and who we are in the world
- Title
- Ecological thoughts: Schopenhauer, J M Coetzee and who we are in the world
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- vital:7031
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007362
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5848/CSP.0926.00001
- Description
- preprint
- Description
- For the ecological agenda to make substantive progress, we will have to see powerful people and social agencies turning away from the ecological insanity that threatens us all, and for this to happen, people need to embrace voluntary renunciation, on the understanding that this is not self-sacrifice, but a different and more satisfying way of being in the world. The paper offers some thought, provoked by reading J.M. Coetzee and Arthur Schopenhauer, about what would make this change possible, what might enable it; and secondly why it is implausible that any such ideal might actually come to pass.
- Format
- 31 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa, Wright, L.S. (2008) Ecological thinking: Schopenhauer, J.M. Coetzee and who we are in the world. In: Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, pp. 24-42, Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa 24 42 2008 type="isbn">9781443809269
- Rights
- Wright, Laurence
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa Self-archiving Policy
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