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Life as synecdoche: Ansel Adams and the expanding liberal democratic tradition

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Pages 7-17 | Published online: 16 Feb 2011
 

Abstract

In The rights of nature: A history of environmental ethics (1989), Roderick Nash paints a portrait of the United States' expanding liberal democratic tradition – the extension of ethics outward from self to other people to other living things and, ultimately, to the earth in its entirety. In this article, we examine the expanding liberal democratic tradition through the life of one individual, Ansel Adams, the renowned black-and-white landscape photographer. Adams captured the beauty of his country's landscapes and imbued them with meaning that evoked a strong sense of place (Tuan, Y. (Citation1977). Space and place: The perspective of appearance. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press) thereby influencing both the environmental movement and the politics of place. Adams' story is a synecdoche, a representation of the larger story of twentieth-century environmentalism.

Dans le livre « Les droits de la nature : Une histoire de l'éthique de l'environnement » (1989), l'auteur Roderick Nash nous peint un portrait de la tradition et libérale et démocratique américaine, et l'expansion de l'éthique du soi-même vers d'autres personnes et d'autres êtres vivants. Le but ultime de cette expansion de l'éthique selon Nash est la considération de la terre entière. Dans cet article, nous examinons l'élargissement de la tradition démocratique libérale aux États-Unis à travers la vie du photographe renommé Ansel Adams. Avec l'aide de photographe noir et blanc, Adams a capturé la beauté des paysages de son pays et évoqué un sens d'appartenance (Tuan, Y. (Citation1977). Space and place: The perspective of appearance. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), qui influence à la fois le mouvement écologique et la politique de lieux. L'histoire d'Adams est une synecdoque, une représentation de la grande histoire de l'écologie du XXe siècle.

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