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- Title
Luc Ferry's Critique of Deep Ecology, Nazi Nature Protection Laws and Environmental Anti-Semitism.
- Authors
Bratton, Susan Power
- Abstract
Neo-Humanist Luc Ferry (1995) has compared deep ecology's declarations of intrinsic value in nature to the Third Reich's nature protection laws, which prohibit maltreatment of animals having 'worth in themselves.' Ferry's questionable approach fails to document the relationship between Nazi environmentalism and Nazi racism. German high art and mass media historically presented nature as dualistic, and portrayed Untermenschen as unnatural or inorganic. Nazi propaganda excluded Jews from nature, and identified traditional Jews as cruel to animals. Ferry's idealization of Humanism under reports the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism in European thought, including the French Enlightenment.
- Publication
Ethics & the Environment, 1999, Vol 4, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1085-6633
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1016/S1085-6633(99)80002-3