Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic
future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this.
Our habits are integral to narratives of the good life, to social
norms and expectations, as well as to economic reality. Such shared
shapes are vital. Yet while many of our individual habits seem
perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell disaster.
Beyond consumerism, other forms of life and patterns of dwelling
are clearly possible. But how can we get there from here? Who
precisely is the 'we' that our habits have created, and who else
might we be? Philosophy is about emancipation-from illusions,
myths, and oppression. In Reoccupy Earth, the noted philosopher
David Wood shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our
ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up
alternative forms of earthly dwelling. Sharing the earth, as we do,
raises fundamental questions about space and time, place and
history, territory and embodiment-questions that philosophy cannot
directly answer but can help us to frame and to work out for
ourselves. Deconstruction exposes all manner of exclusion, violence
to the other, and silent subordination. Phenomenology and
Whitehead's process philosophy offer further resources for an
ecological imagination. Bringing an uncommon lucidity, directness,
and even practicality to sophisticated philosophical questions,
Wood plots experiential pathways that disrupt our habitual
existence and challenge our everyday complacency. In walking us
through a range of reversals, transformations, and estrangements
that thinking ecologically demands of us, Wood shows how living
responsibly with the earth means affirming the ways in which we are
vulnerable, receptive, and dependent, and the need for solidarity
all round. If we take seriously values like truth, justice, and
compassion we must be willing to contemplate that the threat we
pose to the earth might demand our own species' demise. Yet we have
the capacity to live responsibly. In an unfashionable but spirited
defense of an enlightened anthropocentrism, Wood argues that to
deserve the privileges of Reason we must demonstrably deploy it
through collective sustainable agency. Only in this way can we
reinhabit the earth.
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