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Creaturely Cosmologies - Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (Hardcover)
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Creaturely Cosmologies - Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Whitehead Studies
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Metaphysics-or the grand narratives about reality that shape a
community-has historically been identified as one of the primary
oppressive factors in violence against animals, the environment,
and other subordinated populations. Yet, this rejection of
metaphysics has allowed inadequate worldviews to be smuggled back
into secular rights-based systems, and into politics, language,
arts, economics, media, and science under the guise of value-free
and narrowly human-centric facts that relegate many populations to
the margins and exclude them from consideration as active members
of the planetary community. Those concerned with systemic violence
against creatures and other oppressed populations must overcome
this allergy to metaphysics in order to illuminate latent
assumptions at work in their own worldviews, and to seek out
dynamic, many-sided, and relational narratives about reality that
are more adequate to a universe of responsive and creative
world-shaping creatures. This text examines two such
worldviews-Whitehead's process-relational thought in the west and
the nonviolent Indian tradition of Jainism-alongside theorists such
as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway,
Karen Barad, that offer a new perspective on metaphysics as well as
the creaturely kin and planetary fellows with whom we co-shape our
future.
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