{"title":"“The Eye Altering Alters All”: Optics, Haptics, and Ecological Modernity in Alfred North Whitehead and Romanticism","authors":"W. Rubel","doi":"10.5406/21543682.52.1.02","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n In this article, it is claimed that the current climate emergency requires that we take seriously a “haptic” approach to nature as found in Alfred North Whitehead and the romantic poets (especially William Blake and William Wordsworth) in contrast to the “optic” approach that has dominated modern thinking.","PeriodicalId":315123,"journal":{"name":"Process Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Process Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21543682.52.1.02","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this article, it is claimed that the current climate emergency requires that we take seriously a “haptic” approach to nature as found in Alfred North Whitehead and the romantic poets (especially William Blake and William Wordsworth) in contrast to the “optic” approach that has dominated modern thinking.