ABSTRACT
I explained in Chapter 3 how Romanticism developed a critique of the scientific dimension of the Enlightenment thought, and its reductionist, mechanistic, deterministic outlook. One of the alternative ideas put forward by Romanticism was that we should regard ourselves as part of nature rather than separate and ‘relating to’ it, a point taken up and developed in the present day, particularly by the Deep Ecology movement. In this respect both critiques of Enlightenment thought, Romantic and contemporary, include a rejection of ‘individualism’.
