Pomnik przyrody i przekraczanie antropocentryzmu
A Natural Monument and Going Beyond Anthropocentrism
Author(s): Mateusz SalwaSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Sociology, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: environmental aesthetics; environmental hermeneuticsm; non-anthropocentric humanities; ecological culture; nature conservation; natural monument
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze the concept of a natural monument as a categorythat may be useful in non-anthropocentric humanities. A theory of nature conservation basedon this concept is discussed as an approach that undermines the culture – nature dichotomyby claiming that a “culture of nature” should be developed. The idea of a natural monumentmakes it also possible to offer an interpretation of the natural environment that maywithstand standard views of nature as an economic resource, tourist attraction or a spherewhich humans should not interfere with. The ideas of certain Polish pioneers of ecology arealso shortly discussed.
Journal: Przegląd Humanistyczny
- Issue Year: 460/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 45-62
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish
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