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Life on earth is currently approaching what has been called the
sixth mass extinction, also known as the Holocene or anthropocene
extinction. Unlike the previous five, this extinction is due to the
destructive practices of a single species, our own. Up to 50% of
plant and animal species face extinction by the year 2100, as well
as 90% of the world's languages. Biocultural diversity is a recent
appellation for thinking together the earth's biological, cultural
and linguistic diversity, the related causes of their extinctions
and the related steps that need to be taken to ensure their
sustainability. This book turns to the work of Jacques Derrida to
propose a notion of 'general ecology' as a way to respond to this
loss, to think the ethics, ontology and epistemology at stake in
biocultural sustainability and the life and death we differentially
share on earth with its others. It articulates an appreciation of
the ecological and biocultural stakes of deconstruction and
provokes new ways of thinking about a more just sharing of the
earth.
Life on earth is currently approaching what has been called the
sixth mass extinction, also known as the Holocene or anthropocene
extinction. Unlike the previous five, this extinction is due to the
destructive practices of a single species, our own. Up to 50% of
plant and animal species face extinction by the year 2100, as well
as 90% of the world's languages. Biocultural diversity is a recent
appellation for thinking together the earth's biological, cultural
and linguistic diversity, the related causes of their extinctions
and the related steps that need to be taken to ensure their
sustainability. This book turns to the work of Jacques Derrida to
propose a notion of 'general ecology' as a way to respond to this
loss, to think the ethics, ontology and epistemology at stake in
biocultural sustainability and the life and death we differentially
share on earth with its others. It articulates an appreciation of
the ecological and biocultural stakes of deconstruction and
provokes new ways of thinking about a more just sharing of the
earth.
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.
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.
A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato's Timaeus and its
engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original
French edition profoundly influenced Derrida The Tomb of the
Artisan God provides a radical rereading of Timaeus, Plato's
metaphysical text on time, eternity, and the relationship between
soul and body. First published in French in 1995, the original
edition of Serge Margel's book included an extensive introductory
essay by Jacques Derrida, who drew on Margel's insights in
developing his own concepts of time, the promise, the world, and
khora. Now available in English with a new preface by Margel, this
engagement with Platonic thought proceeds from two questions that
span the history of philosophy: What is time? What is the body?
Margel's twinned interrogation centers around Plato's concept of
the demiurge (divine artisan or craftsman): its body, its
anthropomorphic attributes, its productive capacities and
regulatory functions in the ordering/organization/assembling of the
world. He posits that this paradoxical figure is not merely a
cosmological metaphor for the living body but also the site of its
destruction, dissolution, and disappearance. Torn between the
finite and the infinite, being and becoming, the concept of
demiurge also poses metaphysical questions about time, time before
time, and the end of time. The ontological status of the demiurge's
body, Margel argues, would become increasingly decisive in the
history of philosophy, particularly in Christianity and the dogma
of incarnation.
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