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Morin's Ecology of Ideas and Derrida's Limitrophy: (Re-)Envisioning a Post-Human Ethics

Morin's Ecology of Ideas and Derrida's Limitrophy: (Re-)Envisioning a Post-Human Ethics MORIN’S ECOLOGY OF IDEAS AND DERRIDA’S LIMITROPHY: (RE-)ENVISIONING A POST-HUMAN ETHICS KEITH MOSER Introduction Despite the myriad of differences between Edgar Morin and Jacques Derrida, this essay demonstrates that both thinkers expose the dangers of lingering, anthropocentric, binary logic in the modern world. Specifi cally, Morin and Derrida posit that various types of pervasive dichotomous thinking that run counter to contemporary scientifi c erudition are currently preventing global society from formulating a meaningful response to the impending environmental crisis. Indeed, one of the most salient features of Morin’s ecology of ideas and Derrida’s exercise in limitrophy is the decon- struction of simplistic dichotomies that conceal the richness and complexity of reality. Given that many dualities such as “human” and “animal” and “man” and “nature” perpetuate myopic, deadly illusions of ontological gran- deur, Morin and Derrida decry the “infl uence of disjunctive, reductive and linear thought” (Morin 2006, 140). In an age that is increasingly defi ned by an ecological calamity of epic proportions, they compel us to “give up our linear binary vision” of the biosphere and our place in it (Marion 2015, 217). Morin and Derrida’s philosophy attempts to reconnect us to the so-called “world of things” to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png symploke University of Nebraska Press

Morin's Ecology of Ideas and Derrida's Limitrophy: (Re-)Envisioning a Post-Human Ethics

Moser, Keith
symploke , Volume 28 (1) – Nov 24, 2020
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MORIN’S ECOLOGY OF IDEAS AND DERRIDA’S LIMITROPHY: (RE-)ENVISIONING A POST-HUMAN ETHICS KEITH MOSER Introduction Despite the myriad of differences between Edgar Morin and Jacques Derrida, this essay demonstrates that both thinkers expose the dangers of lingering, anthropocentric, binary logic in the modern world. Specifi cally, Morin and Derrida posit that various types of pervasive dichotomous thinking that run counter to contemporary scientifi c erudition are currently preventing global society from formulating a meaningful response to the impending environmental crisis. Indeed, one of the most salient features of Morin’s ecology of ideas and Derrida’s exercise in limitrophy is the decon- struction of simplistic dichotomies that conceal the richness and complexity of reality. Given that many dualities such as “human” and “animal” and “man” and “nature” perpetuate myopic, deadly illusions of ontological gran- deur, Morin and Derrida decry the “infl uence of disjunctive, reductive and linear thought” (Morin 2006, 140). In an age that is increasingly defi ned by an ecological calamity of epic proportions, they compel us to “give up our linear binary vision” of the biosphere and our place in it (Marion 2015, 217). Morin and Derrida’s philosophy attempts to reconnect us to the so-called “world of things” to

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