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Anne Frank’s Tree: Nature’s Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust
- Eric Katz (author)
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| Title | Anne Frank’s Tree |
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| Subtitle | Nature’s Confrontation with Technology, Domination, and the Holocaust |
| Contributor | Eric Katz (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3197/63801707455742.book |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2015/05/01/anne-franks-tree/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | The White Horse Press |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Publication place | Winwick, UK |
| Published on | 2015-05-01 |
| ISBN | 978-1-874267-91-1 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-874267-85-0 (Hardback) | |
| 978-1-912186-36-5 (PDF) | |
| Short abstract | In this important and original interdisciplinary work, well-known environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology’s role in dominating, and thus destroying, both nature and human life and society. |
| Long abstract | In this important and original interdisciplinary work, well-known environmental philosopher Eric Katz explores technology’s role in dominating, and thus destroying, both nature and human life and society. Katz’s argument innovatively connects two distinct areas: the fundamental goal of the Holocaust, including Nazi environmental policy, to heal the degenerate elements of society; and the plan to heal degraded natural systems that informs the contemporary environmental policy of ‘ecological restoration’. In both arenas of ‘healing’, Katz argues that technology drives action, while domination emerges as the prevailing ideology. Katz’s work is a plea for the development of a technology that does not dominate and destroy but instead promotes autonomy and freedom. Anne Frank, a victim of Nazi ideology and action, saw the titular tree behind her secret annex as a symbol of freedom and moral goodness. In Katz’s argument, the tree represents a free and autonomous nature. 'Anne Frank’s Tree' is rooted in an empirical approach to philosophy, seating complex ethical ideas in a powerful narrative of historical fact and deeply personal lived experience. |
| Print length | 212 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 145 x 229 mm | 5.71" x 9.02" (Paperback) |
| 152 x 210 mm | 5.98" x 8.27" (Hardback) | |
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Contents
Preface: The Tree
(pp. 1–13)- Eric Katz
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4. Independent Nature Denied
(pp. 112–137)- Eric Katz
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Epilogue: Fire Island, July 2012
(pp. 180–182)- Eric Katz
Contributors
Eric Katz
(author)Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Eric Katz (B.A. Philosophy, Yale; Ph.D., Boston University) is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community (1997), winner of the CHOICE book award for “Outstanding Academic Books for 1997.” He is the editor of Death by Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany (2006). He has co-edited the collections Environmental Pragmatism (1996, with Andrew Light); and Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology (2000, with Andrew Light and David Rothenberg); and the textbook Controlling Technology (2nd edition, 2003, with Andrew Light and William Thompson). He has written over fifty journal articles, book chapters and book reviews. He was the Book Review Editor of Environmental Ethics from 1996 to 2014, and was the founding Vice-President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. From 1991 to 2007 he was the Director of the Science, Technology and Society (STS) programme at NJIT.