02345    a2200349   450000500170000000800390001702000220005603700360007804000070011404100080012107200160012907200160014507200150016107200160017607200150019207200130020707200130022007200130023307200140024607200130026007200210027307200210029407200210031507200210033607200150035710000180037224500200039025000060041026000320041630000100044852015370045820250526161926.0250430042021GB                   eng    a9780367705183qBC  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 16.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aQDTQ2thema7 aQDTJ2thema7 aRNK2thema7 aRNCB2thema7 aPST2thema7 aHPQ2bic7 aHPJ2bic7 aRNK2bic7 aRNCB2bic7 aPST2bic7 aPHI0000002bisac7 aPHI0020002bisac7 aSCI0150002bisac7 aSCI1010002bisac7 a1102bisac1 aFreya Mathews10aEcological Self  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20210517  a214 p  bEnvironmental disasters, from wildfires and vanishing species to flooding and drought, have increased dramatically in recent years and debates about the environment are rarely far from the headlines. There is growing awareness that these disasters are connected – indeed, that in the fabric of nature everything is interconnected. However, until the publication of Freya Mathews' The Ecological Self , there had been remarkably few attempts to provide a conceptual foundation for such interconnectedness that brought together philosophy and science. In this acclaimed book, Mathews skilfully weaves together a thought-provoking metaphysics of the environment. She connects the ideas of the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza with twentieth-century systems theory and Einstein’s physics to argue that the atomistic cosmology inherited from Newton gave credence to a picture of the universe as fragmented, rather than as whole. Furthermore, it is such faulty thinking that presents human beings as similarly disconnected and individualistic, with the dire consequence that they regard nature as of purely instrumental rather than intrinsic value. She concludes by arguing for an ethics of ecological interdependence and for a basic egalitarianism among living species. A compelling and fascinating account of how we must change our thinking about the environment, The Ecological Self is a classic of ecological and environmental thinking. This Routledge Classics edition includes a substantial new Introduction by the author.