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Social barriers to biophilia: Merging structural and ideational explanations for environmental degradation

  • Erich Fromm argues that the only reliable way to solve the environmental crisis is to alter current social formations in a way in which biophilia can flourish, so humankind can solve its existential dichotomy as well as meet survival needs in an ecologically sound way. However, society's preoccupation with the non-alive-elements such as technique, the mechanical, gadgets, and commodities – shows that the modern social character is far from biophilous. Instead, modern societies are inherently ecologically destructive due to systematic processes and attraction to its progress is a less acute form of, what Fromm terms, necrophilia. His insights can help formulate a social theory of environmental degradation that includes structural and ideational variables. Prescriptively, this means appeals for value changes must correspond with fitting appeals for structural changes in social systems.

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Author:Ryan Gunderson
Parent Title (English):The Social Science Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4 (2014), pp. 681-685. [Online ISSN: 1873-5355] [doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2014.06.002]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2014
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:to purchase via publisher
IdNo:Gunderson_R_2014b
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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