Philosophical Dialogues by Witoszek Nina; Brennan Andrew; Anker Peder & Andrew Brennan

Author:Witoszek, Nina; Brennan, Andrew; Anker, Peder & Andrew Brennan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1999-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

Richard Ohmann is not himself a deep ecologist, but a man sensitive to the terrain of gender politics that now underlies both daily routine and theoretical work. He approaches our dilemma in this way:

Progressive male intellectuals and professionals have arrived at feminism by an inexorable development and by a moral logic that flows from our strongest allegiances. . . . If we are “in” feminism at all, we are dragged into it kicking and screaming, and now that we’re there, we should think of ourselves as on extended probation, still learning. What we do there with our experience, our competence, and our gender and class confidence, is a matter to be negotiated with caution, flexibility, improvisation, listening, and often doubtless through a strategic fade into the wallpaper. But I don’t see drawing back from the knowledge that feminism is our fight, too.62

Clearly there is a long way yet to go. In terms of a Green or eco-socialist political practice, the new politics will demand of men and women more than just rational understanding of their respective positions as bearers of class, race, and gender domination, if they are to recover their shared human complementarity. Men, moreover, whose history has taken them on such a destructive path, will need to open up to a deep therapeutic acceptance of the process of mother/nature/woman killing in the making of their own identities. Although the personal and the transpersonal are intermeshed, as far as deep ecology goes, this inner movement has been lacking. Constructed by a class of men that is serviced by both patriarchal and capitalist institutions, deep ecology with its valuable move to “ecocentrism” remains out of touch with the material source of its continuing existence. Significantly, its theorization ignores the place of labor in the creation and sustenance of human life and its pivotal role in our human exchanges with nature. In short, as it is presently formulated, deep ecology reflects the disembodied conditions of its own production. This situation is, and should be, a matter for concern, if not despair, among committed environmental radicals, eco-socialists, and ecofeminists.

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