Heidegger's Support for Deep Ecology Reexamined Once Again: Ontological Egalitarianism, or Farewell to the Great Chain of Being

@article{HolyLuczaj2015HeideggersSF,
  title={Heidegger's Support for Deep Ecology Reexamined Once Again: Ontological Egalitarianism, or Farewell to the Great Chain of Being},
  author={Magdalena Holy-Luczaj},
  journal={Ethics \& the Environment},
  year={2015},
  volume={20},
  pages={45 - 66}
}
In the paper, I argue that deep ecologists did not take full advantage of the potential of Martin Heidegger's philosophy to support the foundational assumptions of deep ecology. They have overlooked Heidegger's attempt to reject the idea of the great chain of being (reinforcing his critique of metaphysics as “ontotheology”), which is essential for the concept of ecospherical egalitarianism. In considering the notion of “eco-spherical egalitarianism,” I shall recognize Heidegger's ontology as an… 
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