Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World

ISBN-13: 9781138649859 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 174 str.

Gerard Kuperus;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

While our world is characterized by mobility, global interactions, and increasing knowledge, we are facing serious challenges regarding the knowledge of the places around us. We understand and navigate our surroundings by relying on advanced technologies. Yet, a truly knowledgeable relationship to the places where we live and visit is lacking.

This book proposes that we are utterly lost and that the loss of a sense of place has contributed to different crises, such as the environmental crisis, the immigration crisis, and poverty. With a rising number of environmental, political, and economic displacements the topic of place becomes more and more relevant and philosophy has to take up this topic in more serious ways than it has done so far. To counteract this problem, the book provides suggestions for how to think differently, both about ourselves, our relationship to other people, and to the places around us. It ends with a suggestion of how to understand ourselves in an eco-political community, one of humans and other living beings as well as inanimate objects.

This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of environmental ethics and philosophy as well as those interested in the environmental humanities more generally.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Nietzsche, the Wandering Philosopher
2. Lost at Home: Heidegger and the phenomenologists on Being-in-the-World
3. Plastic Places, Settled Nomads: An Analysis of Our Sense of Place Through Foucault and Deleuze
4. Walking and Thinking Mountains: Dōgen, Leopold, and the Tlingit
5. Conclusion: Toward an Eco-Political Homelessness

O autorze

Gerard Kuperus is Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco, USA, specializing in philosophy of nature and environmental philosophy.