AFP: Doing ‘deep ecology’ by any academically trained philosopher might be daunting insofar as it involves the task of conceiving environmental crisis in philosophical terms. If there is anything warranted by this task it is the intention of thinking the relationship between nature and life by way of explicating the ‘unity of the world.’ But ‘philosophy,’ for Jürgen Habermas, ‘can no longer refer to the whole of the world’ particularly in the sense of ‘totalizing knowledge.’ How then a philosophical worldview of nature and life (in the sense of its totality) is possible? The answer to this question can be found in the philosophical approach of Md.
Munir Hossain Talukder who invites us to take the universe in its totality as a way of correcting the metaphysics of ‘self’ and its relation with the nature.
His recently published book, Nature and Life: Essays on Deep Ecology and Applied Ethics is the culmination of all his efforts so far at portraying a philosophical image of life while not giving up the totality of the nature or the universe as linked together.
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