简介:Provocative,playful,andenlightening,SimonEstok'sTheEcophobiaHypothesisawakensustoourselveswithbothcompassionandwisdomaboutapsychologicalconditionhecallsecophobia,whichisalsoprofoundlysocial,economic,andpolitical.EstokdefinesecophobiainhisIntroductionas"auniquelyhumanpsychologicalconditionthatpromptsantipathytowardnature"(1).Ecophobia,Estokalsowrites,canembody"fear,contempt,indifference,orlackofmindfulness"(1).Itis,inanutshell,anirrationalfearofnatureandagroundlesshatredofthenaturalworldhumanbeingsseemtohaveadaptedandaresufferingfromwhethertheyconsciouslyrecognizeitornot.
简介:文中对《壮族麽经布洛陀影印译注》这一壮族文化经典中的追求内盈的生态审美意识具体内涵进行了详细的分析,指出在《麽经布洛陀》里的壮族先民们认为,人作为物质存在的生命体,是应当有物质的欲望的,也只有满足了这基本的物质欲望,人类才得以进一步的发展。同时,壮族先民们也清醒地认识到人的物质欲望是不能过度膨胀的,人们对物质欲望的追求必须要保持一定的度的,进而向内祈求人自身精神生活的丰富性。这种注重内在精神生命胜于外在物质生命的生态审美意识,更多地体现在壮族人们对审美意识人生的崇尚与偏好上,从自发无意识地探索与解释大自然的奥秘,到主动加以适应和调整自己与大自然环境的关系,再到自觉摸索与总结稻作生产规律知识,最后创建自成体系的稻作文明。由外而内,轻外在物质而重内在精神生命的状态,这就是《麽经布洛陀》里所展现的壮族先民一种内盈的生态审美意识。
简介:InStacyAlaimo'slatestfull-lengthstudy,Exposed:EnvironmentalPoliticsandPleasuresinPosthumanTimes,Alaimocontinuesherinterestsinecofeminismandmaterialecocriticismandexpandsthattoincludeposthumanism.TheauthorofanearlyimportantecofeministstudyentitledUndomesticatedGrounds(2000)(inwhichshereappraisedtheideologicaltiesbetweenwomenandtheso-callednaturalworldthatwerebeingdenigratedbyotherpoststructuralistthinkers),Alaimocatapultedtobecomeamajorforceinecocriticismandtheenvironmentalhumanitiesatlargewithhertermtranscorporeality.Nowakeywordinecocriticism,trans-corporealityfirstgainedwidespreadattentioninAlaimoandSusanHekman'seditedanthology,MaterialFeminisms(2008)andAlaimo'smonographBodilyNatures(2010).