The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy (Athabasca University)
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The Prussian, the Hawk, and the "Revealed Essay"
Get PDFIt is commonly believed that Neo-Kantian moral theory is necessarily hostile to enlightened environmentalism. My argument: Kantians can acknowledge our obligations toward nature once they recognize the value that the aesthetics of the natural world have as a proving ground for moral judgment. Treating this as an empirical claim, I supplement it with Maurice Mendelbaum’s notion of “fittingness” and test it via appeal to a specific case study provided by the phenomenological expertise of the twentieth century nature writer Loren Eiseley. What emerges is a (very) broadly Kantian defense of ecologically responsible action which does not presuppose the intrinsic moral value of non-human nature
Wirth, "Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis"
No full textA book review of Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis by Jason M. Wirth, published by State University of New York Press (2017)
Farrier, "Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils"
No full textA book review of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier, published by 4th Estate (2020).
Farrier’s work powerfully explores the way in which the objects that surround us will become future fossils. The patient investigations and many references to literature that Footprints makes offers something to both those new to the Anthropocene discussion as well as to those who want to deepen their understanding of what it means to be a geological agent on earth. However, the book misses the opportunity to pick up the ethical questions to which it leads
Toward the Humilocene: The Embodied Rhetoric of St. Francis of Assisi
Get PDFIn support of abandoning the term Anthropocene in favor of calling our current epoch the Humilocene, this essay addresses Lynn White, Jr.’s critique that a particular understanding of Christian creation theory is the cause of our current ecological crisis, briefly discussing contemporary attempts to read the Old and New Testaments in a manner harmonious with White’s critiques and recommendations, and explores the embodied rhetoric of St. Francis of Assisi. I argue that Francis’s manner of embodying three of Cicero’s canons of rhetoric is relevant to contemporary rhetoricians and to deep ecologists. Francis’s rhetorical style is an embodied rhetoric that assists advocacy by transforming everyday experiences, builds community through an embrace of agapē, and, through Francis’s adoption of the position of “servant,” helps establish a more equal distribution of power. Franciscan rhetoric offers equipment for moving through the humiliation, humility, and redemption of the Humilocene.
Keywords: St. Francis, rhetoric, Humilocene, Anthropocene