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173 notes 1. prolegomena to any future phenomenological ecology 1. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1962), trans. Joan Stambaugh (Albany: SUNY, 1996), p. 35. 2. Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, First Book: General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology, trans. Fred Kersten (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1982), §§24, 141. 3. Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, trans. Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike (New York: Knopf, 1995). I thank Percy Jack for drawing my attention to this passage . For comments on what is said by the other writers named in the text at this point, see John Llewelyn, Derrida on the Threshold of Sense (London: Macmillan, 1986), chs. 5 and 6. 4. For a discussion of some of the complications to which this connection has given rise see John Llewelyn, ‘‘Meanings Reserved, Re-served, and Reduced,’’ Southern Journal of Philosophy 32, Supplement (1993): 27–54. 5. Heidegger, Being and Time, p. 15 and §15. 6. Ibid., p. 175. 7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962), p. viii. 8. Heidegger, Being and Time, p. 35. 9. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1953), para. 24. 10. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 1094b, 11–12. 11. William J. Richardson, Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1967). 12. Martin Heidegger, Vorträge und Aufsätze, vol. 2 (Pfullingen: Neske, 1954), p. 55, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), p. 182. 13. Heidegger, Vorträge und Aufsätze, vol. 2, pp. 178–80, Poetry, Language, Thought, pp. 50–52. 14. John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1988), p. 14. 15. Martin Heidegger, Unterwegs zur Sprache (Pfullingen: Neske, 1959), p. 198, On the Way to Language, trans. Peter D. Hertz (New York: Harper and Row), p. 92. 16. The expression ‘‘question-savoir ’’ is Merleau-Ponty’s. See Le visible et l’invisible 174 notes to pages 11–22 (Paris: Gallimard, 1964), p. 171, The Visible and the Invisible, trans. Alphonso Lingis (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1968), p. 129. 17. Edmund Husserl, Cartesianische Meditationen (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1950), p. 183, Cartesian Meditations, trans. Dorian Cairns (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1960), p. 157. 18. Heidegger, Being and Time, p. 54. 19. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972), p. 223. See John Llewelyn, The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience: A Chiasmic Reading of Responsibility in the Neighbourhood of Levinas, Heidegger and Others (London: Macmillan, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1991), pp. 35 and 192. I can underline how important for my argument is the coherence of the notion that human beings may be advocates for non-human beings if I reproduce here the following helpful comment by an anonymous editorial reviewer of this chapter, a chapter in a book that is itself a case of such advocacy: ‘‘Rawls claims that his ethic is not one based essentially on selfinterest , but rather is a Kantian ethic based on rational choice. It just so happens that the most rational universalization in this instance is one that maximizes self-interest. Yes, this is hogwash, but it is his position. This is why, for instance, a tree can’t enter the Original Position. It supposedly has no rationality that would be left behind the Veil of Ignorance.’’ On my argument the most rational universalization for the human advocate in the Original Position would be more universal than the universalization contemplated by Rawls and Kant. 20. John Muir, A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), p. 58. 21. Heidegger, Vorträge und Aufsätze, vol. 2, p. 53, Poetry, Language, Thought, p. 181. 22. Husserl, Ideas, §§4, 70, 140. 23. John Muir, ‘‘Thoughts on the Birthday of Robert Burns,’’ cited by Graham White in his introduction to John Muir, The Wilderness Journeys (Edinburgh: Canongate , 1996), p. xviii. 24. See John Llewelyn, The HypoCritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas (London: Routledge, 2000). 25. Emmanuel Levinas, Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence, 2nd ed. (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1978), p. 172, Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence, trans. Alphonso Lingis (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1981), p. 135. 26. G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenologie des Geistes (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1970), p. 92. 2. gaia scienza 1. Martin Heidegger, ‘‘Nur ein Gott kann uns retten,’’ Der Spiegel 23 (1976): 195– 217, trans. William J. Richardson, in Thomas...