A Daoist-inspired Approach to Multispecies Relations

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Publication date 2024
Journal Environmental Philosophy
Volume | Issue number 21 | 2
Pages (from-to) 199-221
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract
This article brings recent insights from political animal philosophy and critical animal studies concerning animal subjectivity and multispecies communities into conversation with Daoist philosophy. Daoism is currently underexplored in animal philosophy and multispecies justice theory. This is unfortunate since Daoist ontology and Daoist concepts such as wanwu (萬物) and wuwei (無為) include recognition of nonhuman agency and multispecies entanglements. They offer a fruitful starting point for rethinking the position of the human in the whole of things as well as relations between human and nonhuman animals.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.5840/envirophil2025115143
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