As you may have noticed, there’s been a flurry of discussion over the past couple of weeks about the 20th-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger and his involvement with the Nazis before and during WWII. While Heidegger’s Nazi connections are no secret, an occasional book pops up now and then to fan the flames of an [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Integral Ecology'
Perspectives on Integral Ecology—4
September 24th, 2009 by Michael E. Zimmerman· 2 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality
For an introduction to this series of dialogues between EnlightenNext magazine’s Ross Robertson and environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman, see this post. For the previous blog in the series, click here.
Ross,
Your marvelous account of how profoundly affected you were by your first visit to Yosemite reminds me of what happened to my wife at the same [...]
Tags:Annapurna·Consciousness·Environment·Integral Ecology·interiority·John Muir·Kant·Michael Zimmerman·transcendence·yosemite
Perspectives on Integral Ecology—3
September 10th, 2009 by Ross Robertson· 4 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Integral Philosophy
For an introduction to this series of dialogues between EnlightenNext magazine’s Ross Robertson and environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman, see this post. For the previous blog in the series, click here.
Michael,
I like the way you tied together the two core issues I brought up—anthropocentrism and interiority—so simply and directly in your last letter. I think my [...]
Tags:animal consciousness·anthropocentrism·Gaia worship·Integral Ecology·interiority·Mark Bekoff·Michael Zimmerman·transcendence
Perspectives on Integral Ecology—2
June 17th, 2009 by Michael E. Zimmerman· 2 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Integral Philosophy
For an introduction to this series of dialogues between EnlightenNext magazine’s Ross Robertson and environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman, see this post. For the previous blog in the series, click here.
Dear Ross,
Thank you very much for your interest in the book that Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and I have written about integral ecology. I welcome the opportunity to [...]
Tags:animal consciousness·anthropocentrism·Bill Devall·deep ecology·George Sessions·Integral Ecology·interiority·Martin Heidegger·Michael Zimmerman·Sean Esbjorn-Hargens
Perspectives on Integral Ecology—1
June 12th, 2009 by Ross Robertson· 2 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy
For an introduction to this series of dialogues between EnlightenNext magazine’s Ross Robertson and environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman, see this post.
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Dear Michael,
Thanks again for agreeing to discuss this always subtle and fascinating subject—integral ecology—with me here on our blog. I am so impressed with the book [...]
Tags:anthropocentrism·Integral Ecology·interiority·Michael Zimmerman
Perspectives on Integral Ecology—A Dialogue
April 29th, 2009 by Ross Robertson· 1 Comment · Bright Green, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Integral Philosophy
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a feature story for EnlightenNext magazine about a cutting-edge perspective on environmentalism known as “bright green.” When I first discovered the term—and the emerging movement it represents—at the internet’s bright green mothership, Worldchanging, it completely transformed my outlook on nature, on human society, on our ecological [...]
Tags:Integral Ecology·Michael Zimmerman·Sean Hargens·Worldchanging



