Ecological Life

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

• Chapter 1 Becoming a Citizen of EarthChapter 2 Moral Attention and JusticeChapter 3 The Idea of an Ecological OrientationChapter 4 Rooted in Our HumanityChapter 5 Relationships between Humans and LandsChapter 6 Being True to OurselvesChapter 7 Maturity's IdealismChapter 8 A Circle of LifeChapter 9 Thoughts and Laws of EarthChapter 10 The Sky inside the City

In The Ecological Life, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer combines an impassioned personal plea for global ecological responsibility with a thoughtful synthesis of the best traditions of environmental and humanist thinking. Conceived as a series of lectures to bright students at an unnamed liberal arts college in the United States, the argument is clear and compelling and accessible, and has the merit of bringing philosophical rigor to what sounds more like a very thoughtful individual working out what really matters now, than a jargon-filled contribution to questions of philosophical scholarship.