Hyperseparation’s basis is the concept of the authentic human, not a bad boundary

Evidence

It is not merely that the dissolution of boundaries of which deep ecologists speak stands in need of much more clarification; it is also that it does the wrong thing. The real basis of hyperseparation lies in the concept of an authentic human being, and in what is taken to be valuable in human character, society and culture, as exclusive of what is taken to be natural. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 669

Categorization

• XREF: Roots the critique in this book’s ch16-17 claim that identity (what counts as the human/valuable) rather than cosmology drives the devaluation of the natural. — connects to: Hyperseparation from nature is healed by neither secession nor boundary dissolution — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 669; Hyperseparation from the feminine makes others only contingent means to self-contained ends — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 529; Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201

Broader Connections

• Hyperseparation from the feminine makes others only contingent means to self-contained ends #expands (0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 529
• Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities #corroborates (0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201