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Eco-Deconstruction - Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Eco-Deconstruction - Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
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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drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others,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.
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