Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Anthropology; From Foil to Fertile Soil for Eco-Justice

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Until recently, popular presumption and scholarly consensus have cautioned against using Emerson as a constructive resource for eco-justice. Emerson’s views of nature, race, and gender as well as his involvement in the abolitionist and women’s movements of the nineteenth century have been a source of ongoing debate. At a time when concerns about social justice and equity have rightly become prominent in eco-justice, scholars of theology, religion, and ecology may wonder whether Ralph Waldo Emerson is best used, if at all, as a foil. Emerson’s anthropology and his reception history are both, at points, deficient. Nevertheless, because justice and love are central to his theological anthropology, he provides a resource for thinking about right relations among human beings and the natural world. This anthropology provides a way beyond the false binary between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism that continues to haunt environmental ethics.
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- container titleJournal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture
- creatorEmily Dumler-Winckler
- issnISSN: 1749-4915 (online)
- issue16.4
- publisherEquinox Publishing Ltd.
- publisher placeSheffield, United Kingdom
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