Red Biocentrism for the Anthropocene

Autor/in	Boxley, Simon
Titel	Red Biocentrism for the Anthropocene
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35 (2019) 3, S.183-197 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Boxley, Simon)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
Schlagwörter	Ecology; World Views; Environmental Education; Marxian Analysis; Educational Theories; Alienation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ökologie; World view; Weltanschauung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Marxism; Marxismus; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Entfremdung
Abstract	If the dawn of the Anthropocene heralds the collapse of the natural and social sciences into a single geostory, then why not also a radical synthesis of the anthropocentrism of Marxist theorising with the biocentrism of Deep Ecology? This article proposes just such a unifcation for theorising education. First, those on the educational left who wish to develop a fundamental unity between red and green should perhaps unearth the roots of Deep Ecological thinking and delve into the long and manifold history of socialist movements, with the aim of identifying where, between the deep red and deep green, might lie some shared origins in common ground. The fawed but nevertheless distinctive monism of the frst philosopher of Marxism, Joseph Dietzgen, offers a philosophy that both prefgures the cosmology of Deep Ecology and suggests means of reconciling the narrative of human toil and 'progress' with that of human 'nestedness'. The task facing the socialist looking to explore such a possibility needs to be located principally at the level of 'cosmic', rather than 'social' ontology, and this article sketches the outlines of such a unity project. Second, from this synthesis fows a set of implications for education and human growth. As the article explains, themes such as alienation and subjectifcation that cross-pollinate the theoretical perspectives might serve as central motifs in a red biocentric educational project ft for the Anthropocene. It is not solely environmental education, but approaches to education more broadly that require reconceptualisation for the Anthropocene. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01