Deconstructing Anthropos: A Critical Legal Reflection on ‘Anthropocentric’ Law and Anthropocene ‘Humanity’

The present reflection draws upon a tradition of energetic, world-facing critical legal scholarship to interrogate the anthropos assumed by the terminology of ‘anthropocentrism’ and of the ‘Anthropocene’. The article concludes that any ethically responsible future engagement with ‘anthropocentrism’...

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Published inLaw and critique Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 225 - 249
Main Author Grear, Anna
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.11.2015
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Cultural Studies
Education
Gender Studies
Human ecology
Human Rights
Justice
Law
Legal History
Multinational corporations
Nibert, David
Philosophy
Philosophy of Law
Terminology
Theories of Law
Transnationalism
New York
Anthropocene
Anthropocentrism
Patterns of
Critical legal theory
justice
Human hierarchies of being
Legal personhood
Transnational corporate power
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Summary:The present reflection draws upon a tradition of energetic, world-facing critical legal scholarship to interrogate the anthropos assumed by the terminology of ‘anthropocentrism’ and of the ‘Anthropocene’. The article concludes that any ethically responsible future engagement with ‘anthropocentrism’ and/or with the ‘Anthropocene’ must explicitly engage with the oppressive hierarchical structure of the anthropos itself—and should directly address its apotheosis in the corporate juridical subject that dominates the entire globalised order of the Anthropocene age.
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ISSN:0957-8536
1572-8617
DOI:10.1007/s10978-015-9161-0