ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the book. In doing that, it is explained what main issues are raised by the book as well as the book’s most central contributions. In brief, this is the defense of an ecocentric approach to nature as well as the idea of ecological love as the foundation of ecological democracy. In the book, the ecological-democracy framework has been a guiding star to find more adequate ways to tackle today’s existential, planetary, and acute ecological crisis. Also, the chapter reminds of how the combination of insights drawn from green political theory and non-anthropocentric critical theory as well as ecophenomenology, deep ecology, and animism are significant to realize the ecological model of democracy. Finally, the conclusion chapter draws attention to Joanna Macy and her idea of active hope. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem, Macy reminds of the danger of the deadening of our response while struggling against the environmental tragedy.
