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This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary
crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a
certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we
live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the
fundamental separateness of things. The authors contend that the
key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways
of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the
fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – what they
refer to as relationality. This shift in paradigm is necessary for
healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large.
The book follows two interwoven threads of argumentation: on the
one hand, it explains and exemplifies the modes of operation and
the dire consequences of non-relational living; on the other, it
elucidates the nature of relationality and explores how it is
embodied in transformative practices in multiple spheres of life.
The authors provide an instructive account of the philosophical,
scientific, social, and political sources of relational theory and
action, with the aim of illuminating the transition from living
within seemingly ineluctable ‘toxic loops’ of unrelational
living (based on ontological dualism), to living within
‘relational weaves’ which we might co-create with multiple
human and nonhuman others.
This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary
crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a
certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we
live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the
fundamental separateness of things. The authors contend that the
key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways
of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the
fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – what they
refer to as relationality. This shift in paradigm is necessary for
healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large.
The book follows two interwoven threads of argumentation: on the
one hand, it explains and exemplifies the modes of operation and
the dire consequences of non-relational living; on the other, it
elucidates the nature of relationality and explores how it is
embodied in transformative practices in multiple spheres of life.
The authors provide an instructive account of the philosophical,
scientific, social, and political sources of relational theory and
action, with the aim of illuminating the transition from living
within seemingly ineluctable ‘toxic loops’ of unrelational
living (based on ontological dualism), to living within
‘relational weaves’ which we might co-create with multiple
human and nonhuman others.
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