Hyperseparation from nature is healed by neither secession nor boundary dissolution

Evidence

Instead of healing this dualism, deep ecology proposes a ‘unifying process’, a metaphysics which insists that everything is really part of, indistinguishable from, everything else. This is not only to employ overly powerful tools, but ones that do the wrong job, for the origins of the particular opposition involved in human/nature dualism remain unaddressed and unanalysed. This overreaction results from the confusion of separation and hyperseparation, radical exclusion and non-identity. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 669

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes separation from hyperseparation and radical exclusion from non-identity — the conceptual core that tells why both directions of ‘cure’ misfire.
• XREF: connects to: Both assimilation to self and total alienness are dualistic errors about nature. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 609; Hyperseparation’s basis is the concept of the authentic human, not a bad boundary — 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 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities #expands (0.82) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201