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published on January 9, 2025
Urszula Lisowska

https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics2024123189
Towards Non-Appropriative Relating
Environment-Building as World-Making
The paper brings together Steven Vogel¡¯s concept of the environment and the category of the world in Hannah Arendt¡¯s and Malcom Ferdinand¡¯s interpretations. First, the similarities between the concepts are shown: they both refer to the networks of things and relationships and, as such, emphasize the political dimension of ecological concerns. Second, it is argued Vogel¡¯s discursive model of politics can be enriched with the aid of the model of non-appropriative relating implied by the concept of the world. Two amendments to Vogel¡¯s project are analyzed. It is shown that non-appropriative relating provides additional support for the central value of Vogel¡¯s approach, i.e., non-domination. In the next step, it is argued the model offers insights into the problem that Vogel considers important but impossible to solve, namely¡ªthe question of politically relating to non-human beings.