The Exploration Into Leiss’s Thought-the Domination Of Nature

The article is rooted on the increasingly severe ecological crisis since the sixties and seventies of the 20 th century. Because of the industrial modernization and rapid development of the capitalist world, the predatory behavior has become common. The enthusiasm for material pursuit has reached unprecedented levels.With the economic developing rapidly, the burdened level of the nature environment can be gradually decreasing. So the ecological crisis caused by the industrial modernization in the capitalist world broke out first and spread all over the world. The research on the root of ecological crisis gradually warmed up throughout the world as well.The article mainly studies Leiss, who is a representative of studying ecology Marxism. His theory ‘the Domination of Nature’ is one of the world’s most influential ecological thought in the twentieth century. He analyzed the cause of ecological crisis deeply, and put forward that it isn’t the science and technology itself on ‘the Domination of Nature’ but dominating human being to use science and technology that contributes to the ecological crisis. In the meanwhile, he also tried to use ethical and more constraint, the rational application of science and technology and the establishment of society relatively easy to survive of society to solve the ecological crisis.The article will first analyze the background where Leiss puts forward the thought‘the Domination of Nature’, sequences further the historical root and developing voyage on Leiss’ theory, and focuses on the analyses three relationships, such as the relationship between science technology and natural environment, between science technology and human being and between science technology and science conflict,which, from the control nature to liberate nature, explains the relationship between ‘the Domination of Nature’ and ‘the Domination of Human Being, and the relationship between the dialectical objective analysis Leiss ‘s rationality and limitations of the theory---‘the Domination of Nature’.In the meanwhile, the text takes something to benefit our country’s construction of ecological civilization from the theory.Through the growing pattern of transformation economic,we will build the correct ecological values and to establish a harmonious political environment by the power of the ethical andmoral. Nowadays Leiss’ s thought and theory for our country has important reference value to the construction of ecological civilization while Leiss’ s thought and theory has also certain limitations of romanticism and composition,which requests when we analyze the leiss’ s thought and theory, we should take in the essence, discard the dross and use the theory objectively and rationally.