Environmental Humanities: A Shift of Western Humanities

Nangong Meifang

doi:10.13931/j.cnki.bjfuss.2022179

Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Science) > 2023 > 22(3): 28-32. > DOI: 10.13931/j.cnki.bjfuss.2022179

Nangong Meifang. Environmental Humanities: A Shift of Western Humanities[J]. Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Science), 2023, 22(3): 28-32. DOI: 10.13931/j.cnki.bjfuss.2022179

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Nangong Meifang. Environmental Humanities: A Shift of Western Humanities[J]. Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Science), 2023, 22(3): 28-32. DOI: 10.13931/j.cnki.bjfuss.2022179

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Nangong Meifang. Environmental Humanities: A Shift of Western Humanities[J]. Journal of Beijing Forestry University (Social Science), 2023, 22(3): 28-32. DOI: 10.13931/j.cnki.bjfuss.2022179

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Environmental Humanities: A Shift of Western Humanities

Nangong Meifang

School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Forestry University, 100083, P. R. China

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Received Date: October 19, 2022
Accepted Date: July 04, 2023
Available Online: September 27, 2023
Published Date: September 24, 2023

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Since the term ''Environmental Humanities'' was officially unveiled in 2012, it has caused great impact in Western scholarship and is regarded as a solution for the western traditional humanities to tackle environmental crisis. Environmental Humanities, which incorporate the new currents of thought of "posthumanism" and "new materialism", first oppose the exceptionality of human beings, dismantle the dualistic opposition between human and non-human, and believe that human beings, like all other beings, are part of the world; Secondly, subjectivity is not unique to human beings, and non-human beings also have the subjective function of action. On this basis, a real environmental ethics can be eventually constructed in which human beings and nature are equal.
- Environmental Humanities,
- dualistic opposition,
- subjectivity,
- ecological ethics

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