Ecocriticism as a Contribution to Consilient Knowledge
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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2010.1.1.315Palabras clave:
consilience, ecology, re-enchantment, niches, Weber, DarwinismResumen
Key words: consilience, ecology, re-enchantment, niches, Weber, Darwinism
Rather than seeking to expose anthropocentrism, insisting on mutually reinforcing parallels between the discrimination of nature and mechanisms of gender, race and class, or pursuing a goal of anti-Enlightenment re-enchantment, ecocritics must engage in a programme of bridge-building between literary criticism and the empirically grounded sciences. Contextualisation of works in terms of environmental history, and a philosophy of biology critically examining its key concepts are currently among the most promising construction programmes of this kind. The time has come for ecocriticism to cease to be a romantic discourse of value or a priestly pursuit, and become a principled, professional, empirico-philosophical critique.
Palabras clave: consiliencia, ecología, encantamiento, nichos, Wever, darwinismo
En lugar de empeñarse en exponer el ecocentrismo, con insistencia en paralelismos entre la discriminación de la naturaleza y mecanismos de género, raza y clase que se refuerzan de manera mutua o de salir a la caza de un objetivo de encantamiento anti Ilustración, los ecocríticos deben dedicarse a tender puentes entre la crítica literaria y las ciencias empíricas. La contextualización de obras en términos de historia medioambiental y una filosofía de la biología que examina de forma crítica sus conceptos clave se encuentran actualmente entre las iniciativas constructivas más prometedoras de su clase. Ha llegado la hora de que la ecocrítica deje de ser un discurso romántico de valor o una aspiración sacerdotal y se convierta en una crítica de principios, profesional y empirico-filosofica.
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