Antinaturalism, or anti-naturalism, is the opposition to essentialist invocations of nature or natural order.[1][2] It is associated with antispeciesism, anti-racism, feminism, and transhumanism.[3][4]
Antinaturalist philosophy is closely linked to the French animal rights movement and materialist feminism.[1] It is also supported by xenofeminists, who advocate for a form of feminism holding that if nature is unjust, it should be changed.[5] Notable advocates include David Olivier and Yves Bonnardel.[6]
Philosophy
editAntinaturalists defend the inherent and absolute moral permissibility of abortion, body modification, divorce, contraception, sex reassignment surgery, and other means by which they believe human beings can assume control of their own bodies and their own environments.[5] Antinaturalism stands in contrast to some radical environmentalist movements, which state that nature itself is sacred and should be preserved for its own sake; instead it advances the idea that all human acts are natural and that ecological preservation is important inasmuch as it is necessary for the well-being of sentient beings, not because of some inherently sacred attribute of nature as a whole.[7] Yves Bonnardel argues that naturalist ideology "goes hand in hand with and legitimises speciesist oppression of non-human sentient beings",[8] and that using natural law to justify the reintroduction of predatory animals to control populations of other animals is a form of speciesism.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Bonnardel, Yves (December 1994). "Appropriation and the concept of Nature". Cahiers antispécistes. 11.
- ^ Grosz, Elizabeth (20 May 2013). "Conclusion". In Gunew, Sneja (ed.). Feminist Knowledge (RLE Feminist Theory): Critique and Construct (0 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203094037. ISBN 978-0-203-09403-7.
- ^ Olivier, David (9 April 1999). "Contribution au débat à la maison de l'écologie" [Contribution to the debate at the House of Ecology]. Les Cahiers antispécistes (in French). Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- ^ Ferry, Luc (2016). La révolution transhumaniste [The Transhumanist Revolution] (in French). Paris: Place des éditeurs. ISBN 978-2-259-25100-6.
- ^ a b Hester, Helen (2018). "What Is Xenofeminism?". Xenofeminism. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-5095-2066-4.
- ^ Siegler, Pierre (12 March 2020). "L'idéologie du 'tout social' nuit aux humains et aux animaux" [The ideology of the "all social" harms humans and animals]. L'Amorce (in Canadian French). Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- ^ Dubreuil, Catherine-Marie (2009). "L'antispécisme, un mouvement de libération animale" [Antispeciesism, an animal liberation movement]. Ethnologie française (in French). 39: 117–122. doi:10.3917/ethn.091.0117.
- ^ Bonnardel, Yves (December 1994). "Appropriation and the concept of Nature". Cahiers antispécistes. 11.
- ^ Bonnardel, Yves (December 1996). "Contre l'apartheid des espèces: À propos de la prédation et de l'opposition entre écologie et libération animale" [Against cash apartheid: About predation and the opposition between ecology and animal liberation]. Cahiers antispécistes (in French). 14.
Further reading
edit- Haber, Stéphane (2006). Critique de l'antinaturalisme. Études sur Foucault, Butler, Habermas ["Critique of Antinaturalism. Studies on Foucault, Butler, Habermas"]. France University Press (1, 2).
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