Pathways to a New Environmental Ethic: Decentering the Human Subject

We live under the threat of humanity's self-inflicted extinction. While technological approaches to climate mitigation are admirable, our ecological crisis results ultimately from an inherited, unexamined concept of selfhood and a misconceived view of nature. The received idea that our self exists inside our skull engenders an assumption that nature is "out there," with devastating results.

This book explores three new ways of thinking about the interrelation of ourselves and "nature": Mer...