The concept of nature is a dumping-ground defined purely as reason’s excluded opposite.

Evidence

Nature, as the excluded and devalued contrast of reason, includes the emotions, the body, the passions, animality, the primitive or uncivilised, the nonhuman world, matter, physicality and sense experience, as well as the sphere of irrationality, of faith and of madness. In other words, nature includes everything that reason excludes. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 97

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of nature as ‘everything reason excludes’ — the load-bearing definition for the whole ecofeminist dualism critique.
• XREF: Plumwood’s nature-as-excluded-remainder directly sharpens Merchant’s identification of nature as the rationalist era’s dead, mechanical other. — connects to: Nature is a political category defined by exclusion from reason — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 40; Nature is backgrounded through systematic moral exclusion, denial, and not-seeing. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 269; Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 826 (+5 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Nature is backgrounded through systematic moral exclusion, denial, and not-seeing. #corroborates (0.88) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 269
• Thought is nature negated, not an appendix of the neuronal. #corroborates (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 263
• Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination #responds-to (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 826
• Being defined as nature means being passive, non-agent, and claimable land #corroborates (0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 44
• A single concept can hold opposite extremes without resolving them #qualifies (0.75)
• Total mediation makes nature nothing but domination-available, eliminating any positive first nature #complicates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1335
• Materialism never resolves but only disguises nature dualism by a truncated reversal #complicates (0.75) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 452