Earth and World - Philosophy After the Apollo Missions

Informationen zum Autor Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of more than one hundred articles and twelve books, including Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment ; Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films ; Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human ; and Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media . Klappentext The versatile philosopher synthesizes the thought of four thinkers into a global ethics for peace. Zusammenfassung The versatile philosopher synthesizes the thought of four thinkers into a global ethics for peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. The Big Picture: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions 2. The Earth's Inhospitable Hospitality: Kant 3. Plurality as the Law of the Earth: Arendt 4. The Earth's Refusal: Heidegger 5. The World Is Not Enough: Derrida 6. Terraphilia: Earth Ethics Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kelly Oliver
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.05.2015
• EAN: 9780231170871
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17087-1
• Seiten: 312
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Philosophy; deconstruction