Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel’s Logic

The Middle Voice of Autopoietic Life

  • Wendell Kisner
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Life, Mechanism, and Dialectical Logic
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    Pages 1-28
  3. Life in the Middle Voice
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    Pages 29-55
  4. The Emergence of Life from Mechanico-Chemical Processes
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    Pages 56-106
  5. The Biologic of Life
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    Pages 107-153
  6. An Ecological Ethic
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    Pages 154-179
  7. From Ontological Determinacy to Natural Contingency
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    Pages 180-223
  8. The Biologic of Autopoiesis
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    Pages 224-279
  9. Conclusion
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    Pages 280-285
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 286-327
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About this book

Introduction

By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism.

Keywords

Ecology environmentalism ecological ethics life philosophy of biology middle voice autopoiesis Hegel Continental philosophy German idealism dialectic ethics Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel human rights knowledge living logic nature Orient subject

Authors and affiliations

  • Wendell Kisner
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  1. 1.Athabasca UniversityCanada

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