Ecology without Nature

In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of that most writers on the topic promote: they propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the nature they revere. The problem is a symptom of a far deeper situation - of accepting the idea of ecology without That is, to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish, once and for all, the idea of nature. Developing a fresh vocabulary for reading environmentality in both content and form, Morton shows that representations of inevitably become metaphysical. Ranging widely in 18th to 20th Century literature, philosophy, culture, and the…