Earthly Engagements (eBook, ePUB)

Reading Sartre after the Holocene
Redaktion: Ally, Matthew C.; Boria, Damon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre's existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch. Contributors variously discuss phenomenology, ethics, politics, ontology, and metaphysics. Earthly locations include the Icelandic coast, the Minnesota woods, the Indiana Dunes, the Chinese Great Plain, the Venetian Lagoon, and more; worldly situations include that of the artist, the activist, the consumer, the tourist, and more. Through their diversity of methods and substantive concerns, the chapters reveal a wealth of critical and heuristic resources within Sartre's thought for thinking through and engaging the planetary ecological crisis and its direct ties to global social, economic, and political crises. In full recognition of Sartre's personal distaste for agrarian settings and wilderness, and some ostensibly anti-environmental philosophical and literary moments, the contributors take the proper Sartrean line that how we view nature and our relationship to nature is neither closed nor predetermined. Like life itself, our worldly relationship to earthly nature is rooted in the sufficiency and open-endedness of freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793638694
• Artikelnr.: 67651553

Autorenporträt

Matthew C. Ally is professor of philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. Damon Boria is associate professor of philosophy at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Introduction by Matthew C. Ally & Damon Boria
Part I. Sartre and Ecology
Chapter 1. "Sartre and Problems in the Philosophy of Ecology - with a
Thirty-Year Update" by William L. McBride
Part II. Art and Phenomenology
Chapter 2. "Soundscape Ecology and a Sartrean Phenomenology of Listening"
by Craig Matarrese
Chapter 3. "The Ecological Gaze: Re-Reading Sartre through Guido van
Helten's No Exit Murals" by Joe Balay
Part III. Ethics
Chapter 4. "Three Sartrean Motivations for Environmentalism" by Kiki Berk
and Joshua Tepley
Chapter 5. "I Am What I Buy: Bad Faith and Consumer Culture" by Elizabeth
Butterfield
Chapter 6. "Buying Green: A Trap for Fools, or, Sartre on Ethical
Consumerism" by Michael Butler
Part IV. Dialectics and Politics
Chapter 7. "Heralding Kairos: The Depths of Seriality and Creating Earth as
a Work of Art" by Austin Hayden Smidt
Chapter 8. "Counter-Finality and the Living World" by Paul Gyllenhammer
Chapter 9. "Hyperobjects and the Practico-Inert: