Rethinking Tradition Ecology

Rethinking the Heidegger-Deep Ecology Relationship

Recent disclosures regarding the relationship between Heidegger’s thought and his own version of National Socialism have led me to rethink my earlier efforts to portray Heidegger as a forerunner of deep ecology. His political problems have provided ammunition for critics, such as Murray Bookchin, who regard deep ecology as a reactionary movement. In this essay, I argue that, despite some simila...

Rethinking Ecology – Challenging Current Thinking in Ecological Research

Rethinking Ecology is a new open access, peer-reviewed journal that aims at fostering both forward-thinking and the publication of novel ideas in all aspects of ecology, evolution and environmental science. This editorial briefly presents the rationale, unique features and the aspiration of the journal.

rethinking giddens model on “reflection”based of his more recent positions on the tradition

for rethinking the anthony giddens’s theory on “reflection”, it is necessary to reconsider his general approach to social reality, and then, situating the concept of “reflection” in the context of his general approach. thus, three-steps will be studied in the article: first, structuration theory that is most important opposition in his social theory. then, giddens's notion of tradition and...

Beyond Tradition

“glocalization” of International Arbitration— Rethinking Tradition: Modernity and East-west Binaries through Examples of China and Japan

In the main streams of comparative law, general legal theory and the study of globalization, there is a general lack of consideration of non-Western legal experience. Such general omission is deeply rooted in the static binaries such as “tradition-modernity” and “East-West,” which make up ‘legal Orientalist’ discourses. This article fills the gap by studying the case China and Japan and analyzi...