Mediations between Nature and Culture

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This book explores the placement of human beings, a betweenness that elicits the fact that human communication is the mediation between ones intellectual, moral, and political experience. Aaron K. Kerr explores the relationship between nature and culture, exposing the obscurities caused by technology and economic dogmatism. A renewal of the mediatory role of human communication is juxtaposed to the immediacy of digital consumption. The author reveals that to redress ecological distress, there must be an equal awareness, sense of place, and regional responsibility for built environments which value nature. By situating philosophy and communication within the scientific consensus of the anthropocene, the author clearly indicates the necessary mediations between fact and value, science and religion, local and global, nature and culture. Scholars of philosophy, rhetoric, environmental ethics, and global bioethics will find this book of particular interest.

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"Enjoyable to read. Beautifully and poetically written. Timely, relevant, and significant academic contribution to the fields of philosophy of communication and environmental ethics."

--Cristina Richie, Delft University of Technology; author of Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care

"This thought-provoking work offers an accessible investigation of communication as a philosophical activity--one that constructs human culture in conjunction with the natural environment."

--Patricia Arneson, Duquesne University

Author Bio

Aaron K. Kerr is associate professor of philosophy at Gannon University.