Philosophy in the American West

ISBN-13: 9780367512552 / Miękka / 2023 / 202 str.

Opis

Philosophy in the American West explains what it means to think philosophically in, and from, "the West". The chapters explore the physical, ecological, cultural, and narrative environments associated with the western United States, reflecting on the relationship between people and the places that sustain them.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Josh Hayes, Gerard Kuperus, Brian Treanor  2. Continental Philosophy Beyond "the" Continent, Brian Treanor 3. Prometheus’ Gift of Fire and Technics: Contemplating the Meaning of Fire, Affect, and Californian Pyrophytes in the Pyrocene, Marjolein Oele  4. The West as Slaughterbench: Thinking without Revolutions in the American West, Christopher Lauer  5. The End(s) of the West: The Time of Apocalypse in the Westerns of Cormac McCarthy, Amanda Parris  6. The Trees of the West: Our Elders, Our Teachers, Andrew Jussaume  7. Thinking Wolves, Thomas Thorp  8. Robert Smith, Entropic Art, and the West, Shannon M. Mussett  9. "Westering" and "BreakingThrough": Zen Buddhism on Cannery Row, Gerard Kuperus  10. Life in Interregnum: Deleuze, Guattari, and Atleo, Russell Duvernoy  11. Monstrous Topologies: Edward Abbey, Reiner Schürmann, and the Fate of the American West, Josh Hayes  12. Turtle Island Anarchy, Jason Wirth

O autorze

Josh Hayes is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Alvernia University, USA.

Gerard Kuperus is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, USA.　

Brian Treanor　is Charles S. Casassa Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, USA.