Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency - Couverture souple

Livre 24 sur 88: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Mickey, Sam

 
9781498517669: Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency
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ISBN 10 : 1498517668 ISBN 13 : 9781498517669
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2018

Synopsis

The philosophy of existentialism is undergoing an ecological renewal, as global warming, mass extinction, and other signs of the planetary scale of human actions are making it glaringly apparent that existence is always ecological coexistence. One of the most urgent problems in the current ecological emergency is that humans cannot bear to face the emergency. Its earth-shattering implications are ignored in favor of more solutions, fixes, and sustainability transitions. Solutions cannot solve much when they cannot face what it means to be human amidst unprecedented uncertainty and intimate interconnectedness. Attention to such uncertainty and interconnectedness is what "ecological existentialism" (Deborah Bird Rose) or "coexistentialism" (Timothy Morton) is all about.

This book follows Rose, Morton, and many others (e.g., Jean-Luc Nancy, Peter Sloterdijk, and Luce Irigaray) who are currently taking up the styles of thinking conveyed in existentialism, renewing existentialist affirmations of experience, paradox, uncertainty, and ambiguity, and extending existentialism beyond humans to include attention to the uniqueness and strangeness of all beings-all humans and nonhumans woven into ecological coexistence. Along the way, coexistentialism finds productive alliances and tensions amidst many areas of inquiry, including ecocriticism, ecological humanities, object-oriented ontology, feminism, phenomenology, deconstruction, new materialism, and more. This is a book for anyone who seeks to refute cynicism and loneliness and affirm coexistence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sam Mickey is adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498517668
ISBN 13 
9781498517669
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9781498517652: Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency

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ISBN 10 :  149851765X ISBN 13 :  9781498517652
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016
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