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Ecology and Existence
Bringing Sartre to the Water's Edge
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ISBN-13:
9780739182895
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
562
Autor:
Matthew C. Ally
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Oriented by the seemingly simple example of a woodland pond, Ally draws together insights from existential philosophy, scientific ecology to articulate a strong sense of human belonging in the living Earth community, and a binding imperative of participation in the struggle to preserve a habitable planet.
This study explores the increasingly troubled relationship between humankind and the Earth, with the help of a simple example and a complicated interlocutor. The example is a pond, which, it turns out, is not so simple as it seems. The interlocutor is Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, philosopher, and, despite his several disavowals, doyen of twentieth-century existentialism. Standing with the great humanist at the edge of the pond, the author examines contemporary experience in the light of several familiar conceptual pairs: nature and culture, fact and value, reality and imagination, human and nonhuman, society and ecology, Earth and world. The theoretical challenge is to reveal the critical complementarity and experiential unity of this family of ideas. The practical task is to discern the heuristic implications of this lived unity-in-diversity in these times of social and ecological crisis.
Interdisciplinary in its aspirations, the study draws upon recent developments in biology and ecology, complexity science and systems theory, ecological and Marxist economics, and environmental history. Comprehensive in its engagement of Sartre’s oeuvre, the study builds upon his best-known existentialist writings, and also his critique of colonialism, voluminous ethical writings, early studies of the imaginary, and mature dialectical philosophy. In addition to overviews of Sartre’s distinctive inflections of phenomenology and dialectics and his unique theories of praxis and imagination, the study also articulates for the first time Sartre’s incipient philosophical ecology. In keeping with Sartre’s lifelong commitment to freedom and liberation, the study concludes with a programmatic look at the relative merits of pragmatist, prefigurative, and revolutionary activism within the burgeoning global struggle for social and ecological justice.
We learn much by thinking with Sartre at the water’s edge: surprising lessons about our changing humanity and how we have come to where we are; timely lessons about the shifting relation between us and the broader community of life to which we belong; difficult lessons about our brutal degradation of the planetary system upon which life depends; and auspicious lessons, too, about a participatory path forward as we work to preserve a habitable planet and build a livable world for all earthlings.
Interdisciplinary in its aspirations, the study draws upon recent developments in biology and ecology, complexity science and systems theory, ecological and Marxist economics, and environmental history. Comprehensive in its engagement of Sartre’s oeuvre, the study builds upon his best-known existentialist writings, and also his critique of colonialism, voluminous ethical writings, early studies of the imaginary, and mature dialectical philosophy. In addition to overviews of Sartre’s distinctive inflections of phenomenology and dialectics and his unique theories of praxis and imagination, the study also articulates for the first time Sartre’s incipient philosophical ecology. In keeping with Sartre’s lifelong commitment to freedom and liberation, the study concludes with a programmatic look at the relative merits of pragmatist, prefigurative, and revolutionary activism within the burgeoning global struggle for social and ecological justice.
We learn much by thinking with Sartre at the water’s edge: surprising lessons about our changing humanity and how we have come to where we are; timely lessons about the shifting relation between us and the broader community of life to which we belong; difficult lessons about our brutal degradation of the planetary system upon which life depends; and auspicious lessons, too, about a participatory path forward as we work to preserve a habitable planet and build a livable world for all earthlings.
Prelude – Many Ways to Wonder
confessions of a lifelong pond watcher
PART I – ENVIRONMENTALISM AND HUMANISM
SHIPS PASSING IN THE LIGHT
Chapter 1 – Toward an Existential Ecology
water, water, everywhere
Chapter 2 – Bringing Sartre to the Biosphere
the truth of a pond
PART II – NATURE AND CULTURE
WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT A POND?
1st Interval – On Method and Substance
phenomenology
Chapter 3 – A Phenomenological Exploration
to the pond itself
2nd Interval – On Method and Substance
dialectics
Chapter 4 – A Dialectical Investigation
everything is in this pond
PART III – FACT AND VALUE
ONE POND, RIGHT OR WRONG
Chapter 5 – Order and Autonomy in Nature and History
what ponds do
3rd Interval – On Method and Substance
praxis
Chapter 6 – From Integral Humanity to Participatory Belonging
wet feet and a helping hand
PART IV – REALITY AND IMAGINATION
PONDS ON EARTH AND OTHER WORLDS
Chapter 7 – A Global Crisis in Planetary Perspective
stirring up a sea of troubles
4th Interval – On Method and Substance
imagination
Chapter 8 – Intimations of a New Socioecological Imaginary
eddies, bubbles, and ripples
PART V – EARTH AND WORLD
FROM HABITABILITY TO LIVEABILITY
Chapter 9 – To the Far Side of Anthropocentrism
safely through the straits
5th Interval – On Method and Substance
ecology
Chapter 10 – On the Near Side of Ecocentrism
running waters, deeper still
Coda – Bringing Earth and world together again
sketch of an existential ecology
confessions of a lifelong pond watcher
PART I – ENVIRONMENTALISM AND HUMANISM
SHIPS PASSING IN THE LIGHT
Chapter 1 – Toward an Existential Ecology
water, water, everywhere
Chapter 2 – Bringing Sartre to the Biosphere
the truth of a pond
PART II – NATURE AND CULTURE
WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT A POND?
1st Interval – On Method and Substance
phenomenology
Chapter 3 – A Phenomenological Exploration
to the pond itself
2nd Interval – On Method and Substance
dialectics
Chapter 4 – A Dialectical Investigation
everything is in this pond
PART III – FACT AND VALUE
ONE POND, RIGHT OR WRONG
Chapter 5 – Order and Autonomy in Nature and History
what ponds do
3rd Interval – On Method and Substance
praxis
Chapter 6 – From Integral Humanity to Participatory Belonging
wet feet and a helping hand
PART IV – REALITY AND IMAGINATION
PONDS ON EARTH AND OTHER WORLDS
Chapter 7 – A Global Crisis in Planetary Perspective
stirring up a sea of troubles
4th Interval – On Method and Substance
imagination
Chapter 8 – Intimations of a New Socioecological Imaginary
eddies, bubbles, and ripples
PART V – EARTH AND WORLD
FROM HABITABILITY TO LIVEABILITY
Chapter 9 – To the Far Side of Anthropocentrism
safely through the straits
5th Interval – On Method and Substance
ecology
Chapter 10 – On the Near Side of Ecocentrism
running waters, deeper still
Coda – Bringing Earth and world together again
sketch of an existential ecology