The Animal Point of View: Ontology, Vitalism and Romanticism in the Ecological Humanities

This article analyzes the new relations to the world that find expression in ecological humanities. Firstly, it defends anthropocentrism as an enlarged humanism; secondly, it evaluates the “ontological” turn from a phenomenological, hermeneutical and critical realist point of view; finally, with Wilhelm Dilthey, it considers the turns (animal, animist, post-humanist, etc.) as a return to a romantic vision of the world and an aspiration to resonance with the living.