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词汇 ecocentrism
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Definition of ecocentrism in English:

ecocentrism

noun
  • another term for biocentrism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At about the summer solstice of 1999, Leo Marx ignited a controversy still running in ecocritical circles by attacking ecocentrism.
    • It thus promises to take us beyond the Nature-Society dualism organising both previous Marxian work on nature and versions of bourgeois technocentrism and radical ecocentrism.
    • What is, however, worth emphasising is that at one level the differences between technocentrism and ecocentrism are more apparent than real.
    • Ecocentrism is either partly or emphatically non-anthropocentric.
    • More subtly, because the production of nature approach is anthropomorphic it also enables a position from which the fate of nature can be considered seriously without declining into a naturalistic ecocentrism.

Derivatives

  • ecocentric

  • adjective
    • Ostensibly the techno- and ecocentric world views are very different, though they overlap in such centrist doctrines as ‘sustainable development’ and ‘ecological modernisation’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Moreover each, again in different ways, provide a valuable corrective to a good deal of the technocentric and the ecocentric thinking which currently animates the environmental debate.
      • In general, however, since the Preamble does not create obligations, it is notably more ecocentric than the substantive articles, which reflect more anthropocentric concerns.
      • Second, I will show that they are assumptions which, surprising and ironic though it is, most Marxian theories of nature share with the bourgeois and radical ecocentric world views they otherwise oppose.

Definition of ecocentrism in US English:

ecocentrism

nounˌekōˈsenˌtrizəm
  • A point of view that recognizes the ecosphere, rather than the biosphere, as central in importance, and attempts to redress the imbalance created by anthropocentrism.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • More subtly, because the production of nature approach is anthropomorphic it also enables a position from which the fate of nature can be considered seriously without declining into a naturalistic ecocentrism.
    • At about the summer solstice of 1999, Leo Marx ignited a controversy still running in ecocritical circles by attacking ecocentrism.
    • Ecocentrism is either partly or emphatically non-anthropocentric.
    • What is, however, worth emphasising is that at one level the differences between technocentrism and ecocentrism are more apparent than real.
    • It thus promises to take us beyond the Nature-Society dualism organising both previous Marxian work on nature and versions of bourgeois technocentrism and radical ecocentrism.
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