Earthly Engagements

Reading Sartre after the Holocene

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-03-16
Mått157 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor350
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793638687

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ContentsForeword Introduction by Matthew C. Ally & Damon BoriaPart I. Sartre and EcologyChapter 1. “Sartre and Problems in the Philosophy of Ecology – with a Thirty-Year Update” by William L. McBridePart II. Art and PhenomenologyChapter 2. “Soundscape Ecology and a Sartrean Phenomenology of Listening” by Craig MatarreseChapter 3. “The Ecological Gaze: Re-Reading Sartre through Guido van Helten’s No Exit Murals” by Joe BalayPart III. EthicsChapter 4. “Three Sartrean Motivations for Environmentalism” by Kiki Berk and Joshua TepleyChapter 5. “I Am What I Buy: Bad Faith and Consumer Culture” by Elizabeth ButterfieldChapter 6. “Buying Green: A Trap for Fools, or, Sartre on Ethical Consumerism” by Michael ButlerPart IV. Dialectics and PoliticsChapter 7. "Heralding Kairos: The Depths of Seriality and Creating Earth as a Work of Art" by Austin Hayden SmidtChapter 8. “Counter-Finality and the Living World” by Paul GyllenhammerChapter 9. “Hyperobjects and the Practico-Inert:

Given its identification with humanism and its strict separation of consciousness from nature, Sartrean existentialism has been easily dismissed by some as having no relevance for environmental philosophy. The 13 essays Ally and Boria gathered challenge this reading, arguing from various perspectives that a Sartrean eco-existentialism is not a contradiction in terms. Although some essays explicitly defend Sartre from the charge that his conceptions of nature and consciousness are dualistic, others bring Sartre’s descriptions of the Other, counter finality, praxis, and the practico-inert to bear on contemporary philosophical discussions in environmental ethics. [The] essays make a plausible case for the relevance of existentialist thought in grasping the nature and implications of the Anthropocene. Of interest to scholars and students of environmental philosophy. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.