Theocentrism and ecocentrism: Annie Dillard’s environmental ethics
Sarfati-Lanter, Judith
Theocentrism and ecocentrism: Annie Dillard’s environmental ethics - 2023.
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Awareness of the ecological crisis has raised particular expectations regarding environmental literature, calling on it to sharpen its critique of the systems of thought that have legitimized the exploitation and commodification of life. But Annie Dillard’s environmental ethics takes another path, which does not break with the dualistic ontology inherent in the Christian faith that is hers. It is from the heart of the experience of the cut and the Great Divide that she intends to re-enchant nature and remind man of his responsibility toward the other-than-human, through writing that is crafted by the exercise of the gaze and the senses, and imbued with a scientific knowledge that is, in her work, an adjunct to faith.
Theocentrism and ecocentrism: Annie Dillard’s environmental ethics - 2023.
47
Awareness of the ecological crisis has raised particular expectations regarding environmental literature, calling on it to sharpen its critique of the systems of thought that have legitimized the exploitation and commodification of life. But Annie Dillard’s environmental ethics takes another path, which does not break with the dualistic ontology inherent in the Christian faith that is hers. It is from the heart of the experience of the cut and the Great Divide that she intends to re-enchant nature and remind man of his responsibility toward the other-than-human, through writing that is crafted by the exercise of the gaze and the senses, and imbued with a scientific knowledge that is, in her work, an adjunct to faith.
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