ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the idea of ecological sensibility. This perspective sheds light on how everything existing can encounter with each other through such sensibility. The term ecological sensibility is inspired by deep ecology, ecophenomenology, and animism. First, the chapter inquires ecological sensibility by rereading the non-anthropocentric critical theorist Hebert Marcuse in the Anthropocene. Noteworthy, Marcuse has inspired the seminal green political theorist Robyn Eckersley and her version of ecological democracy. In line with the rereading, the chapter investigates another non-anthropocentric critical theorist, Hartmut Rosa. Here, Rosa is compared with Charles Taylor. Especially, the chapter is after how their various ideas of nature’s voice contribute to the disburse on ecological sensibility. Rosa is in this context interpreted as an ecophenomenologist. Last, the chapter studies ecological sensibility based on a comparison between Freya Mathews’ concept of ontopoetics and David Abram’s idea of magic.
