Groundworks: ecological issues in philosophy and theology
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Mattias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, and David Wood -- Part I. Diagnosing the present. The eleventh plague : thinking ecologically after Derrida / David Wood -- Thinking after the world : deconstruction and last things / Ted Toadvine -- Scale as a force of deconstruction / Timothy Clark -- Part II. Ecologies. The posthuman promise of the earth / Philippe Lynes -- Un/limited ecologies / Vicki Kirby -- Ecology as event / Michael Marder -- Writing home : eco-choro-spectrography / John Llewelyn -- Part III. Nuclear and other biodegradabilities. E-phemera : of deconstruction, biodegradability, and nuclear war / Michael Naas -- Troubling time/s and ecologies of nothingness : re-turning, re-membering, and facing the incalculable / Karen Barad -- Responsibility and the non(bio)degradable / Michael Peterson -- Extinguishing ability : how we became postextinction persons / Claire Colebrook -- Part IV. Environmental ethics. An eco-deconstructive account of the emergence of normativity in "nature" / Matthias Fritsch -- Opening ethics onto the other shore of another heading / Dawne McCance -- Wallace Stevens's birds, or, Derrida and ecological poetics / Cary Wolfe -- Earth : love it or leave it? / Kelly Oliver.
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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has already proven highly influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume, drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others, builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time." -- Publisher's description
A collection bringing together a wide-varietyof world-renowned scholars on the import of Derrida's philosophy with respectto the current environmental crisis, our ecological relationships to 'nature'and the earth, our responsibilities with respect to climate change, pollution,and nuclear destruction, and the ethics and politics at stake in responding tothese crises.