Name: The new Ecological Order
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Author: Luc Ferry
ISBN: 9780226244839

Type

Physical Book

Author

Luc Ferry

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

190

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.50

ISBN

0226244830

ISBN13

9780226244839

Edition No.

Synopsis "The new Ecological Order "

Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin? In The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry offers a penetrating critique of the ideological roots of the "Deep Ecology" movement spreading throughout Germany, France, and the United States. Traditional ecological movements, or "democratic ecology," seek to protect the environment of human societies; they are pragmatic and reformist. But another movement has become the refuge both of nostalgic counterrevolutionaries and of leftist illusions. This is "deep ecology." Its followers go beyond practical critiques of human greed and waste: they call into question the very possibility of human coexistence with nature. The human species is no longer at the center of the world, but subject to a new god called Nature. For these purists, man can only soil the harmony of the universe. In order to secure natural equilibrium, the only solution is to grant rights to animals, to trees, and to rocks. Ferry launches his critique by examining early European legal cases concerning the status and rights of animals, including a few notorious cases where animals were brought to trial, found guilty, and publicly hanged. He then demonstrates that German Romanticism embraced certain key ideas of the deep ecology movement concerning the protection of animals and the environment. Later adopted by the Nazis, many of these ideas point to a profoundly antihumanistic component of deep ecology that is compatible with totalitarianism. Ferry shows how deep ecology casts aside all the gains of human autonomy since the Enlightenment. He deciphers the philosophical and political assumptions of a movement that threatens to infantalize human society by preying on the fear of the authority of a new theological-political order. Far from denying our "duty in relation to nature," The New Ecological Order offers a bracing caution—against the dangers of environmental claims and, more important, against the threat to democracy contained in the deep ecology doctrine when pushed to its extreme. "A book of intellectual power, full of insights, invention, and not without temerity, from one of the best political philosophers today."—Le Figaro "Few books have analyzed in depth this phenomenon of the ecological movement as the most recent book by Luc Ferry has done. . . . It is a book that absolutely must be read."—Le Point

Luc Ferry

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Luc Ferry (born January 3, 1951 in Colombes, France) is a philosopher, writer, and politician noted for his advocacy of secular humanism. Educated at the Sorbonne and the University of Heidelberg, he earned an aggregation in philosophy and political science, as well as a State doctorate in political science. Throughout his academic career, he taught at institutions such as the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon and the universities of Caen and Paris VII. Moreover, he served as the Minister of National Education, Youth, and Research in France from 2002 to 2004.

Among his most prominent works are "The New Ecological Order" (1992), which received the Médicis Essay Prize and the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Prize, and "The God-Man or the Meaning of Life" (1996), awarded the Human Rights Prize. His book "Learning to Live" (2006) became a bestseller in France, with over 300,000 copies sold. Ferry has tackled topics such as political philosophy, ecology, and the meaning of life in his writings, bringing philosophy to a broad audience outside the academic sphere.

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