Troy R E Paddock
Troy Paddock is a CSU Professor and Professor of Modern European History at Southern Connecticut State University. He received his B.A. in History and Philosophy at Pepperdine University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. Paddock’s research interests focus on modern German cultural and intellectual history, with a special interest in propaganda. He is also interested in environmental history and historical methodology. He wrote Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument (Routledge Press, 2019) Creating the Russian Peril: Education, the Public Sphere, and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914 (Camden House, 2010) and edited volumes, World War I and Propaganda (Brill, 2014) and A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War (Praeger, 2004). He has had articles published in German History, Central European History, Re-thinking History, Philosophy and Geography, Internationale Schulbuchforshung, Ethics in Progress Quarterly, Contemporary Aesthetics, and Environment, Space, Place. Since 2013 he has been co-editor of Environment, Space, Place.
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Front of the Great War: ‘No Man’s Land.’ It off ers an explanation
of why one of the most extraordinary events of the First World War,
the Christmas Truce of 1914, was only possible in that space. Th e paper
suggests that the subversive nature of the truce required undermined the
legitimacy of the state and thus forced state authorities to suppress further
similar occurrences.
One of the enduring images of World War I is that of trench warfare,
featuring two dug-in-sides fi ring at each other across a space than
spanned anywhere from sixty to two hundred yards. Th e space that was
fi red across, dubbed ‘No Man’s Land,’ became an iconic symbol representing
the destructive nature of the Great War. Th is article explores why
one of the most extraordinary events of the First World War was only
possible in that space and why the event could never be duplicated.
The need for constructing an environmental ethics that keeps sustainability in mind is the result of a collision of the realization that the natural environment is neither limitless nor impervious to actions with a view of nature that has been fundamentally instrumentalist and anthropocentric. This paper will borrow from architectural theory in an effort to do two things: First, it will point to some of the limitations of an anthropocentric view of nature and how it impacts efforts to influence environmental policy; second, it will suggest that ideas from Aristotle and Actor Network Theory can help provide a paradigm within which we can think about nature in a way that offers an alternative framing of questions about the environment.
Ethics in Progress, Vol5, No1 by Troy R E Paddock
Front of the Great War: ‘No Man’s Land.’ It off ers an explanation
of why one of the most extraordinary events of the First World War,
the Christmas Truce of 1914, was only possible in that space. Th e paper
suggests that the subversive nature of the truce required undermined the
legitimacy of the state and thus forced state authorities to suppress further
similar occurrences.
One of the enduring images of World War I is that of trench warfare,
featuring two dug-in-sides fi ring at each other across a space than
spanned anywhere from sixty to two hundred yards. Th e space that was
fi red across, dubbed ‘No Man’s Land,’ became an iconic symbol representing
the destructive nature of the Great War. Th is article explores why
one of the most extraordinary events of the First World War was only
possible in that space and why the event could never be duplicated.
The need for constructing an environmental ethics that keeps sustainability in mind is the result of a collision of the realization that the natural environment is neither limitless nor impervious to actions with a view of nature that has been fundamentally instrumentalist and anthropocentric. This paper will borrow from architectural theory in an effort to do two things: First, it will point to some of the limitations of an anthropocentric view of nature and how it impacts efforts to influence environmental policy; second, it will suggest that ideas from Aristotle and Actor Network Theory can help provide a paradigm within which we can think about nature in a way that offers an alternative framing of questions about the environment.