Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy

Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy

Lynes, Philippe
Wood, David
Barad, Karen

Hardcover

Series: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismHistory & Philosophy of Science

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0823279502
ISBN13: 9780823279500
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Mar 27 2018
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), with its relentless interrogation of the anthropocentric metaphysics of presence, has already proven highly influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume, drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others, builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time.

The volume brings together fifteen prominent scholars, from a wide variety of related fields, including eco-phenomenology, eco-hermeneutics, new materialism, posthumanism, animal studies, vegetal philosophy, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, eco-criticism, earth art and aesthetics, and analytic environmental ethics. Overall, eco-deconstruction offers an account of differential relationality explored in a non-totalizable ecological context that addresses our times in both an ontological and a normative register.

The book is divided into four sections. Diagnosing the Present suggests that our times are marked by a facile, flattened-out understanding of time and thus in need of deconstructive dispositions. Ecologies mobilizes the spectral ontology of deconstruction to argue for an originary environmentality, the constitutive ecological embeddedness of mortal life. Nuclear and Other Biodegradabilities, examines remains, including such by-products and disintegrations of human culture as nuclear waste, environmental destruction, and species extinctions. Environmental Ethics seeks to uncover a demand for justice, including human responsibility for suffering beings, that emerges precisely as a response to original differentiation and the mortality and unmasterable alterity it installs in living beings. As such, the book will resonate with readers not only of philosophy, but across the humanities and the social and natural sciences.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Philosophy

View All