Ecopolitics Redefining the Polis

Against the idea of social contract theories that suggest humans invented the political, Gerard Kuperus argues that we have always been political and that our species came into existence in a world that was already political. By studying the rich social and political lives of other animals, Ecopolitics provides suggestions for how to think and feel differently about ourselves, our relationship to other people, and the places and beings around us. Kuperus suggests we understand ourselves as part of an ecopolitical community consisting of humans and other living beings as well as inanimate objects. By recognizing nature itself as utterly political and seeing ourselves as a part of this larger political unity, we can come to face the real challenges of our times. This means that we are not simply putting ourselves in nature as we are. We are also changing who we are.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gerard Kuperus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gerard Kuperus, Kuperus Gerard
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprachen: Englisch
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2023
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke
• EAN: 9781438494258
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9425-8
• Anzahl Seiten: 236
• Serie: Suny Environmental Philosophy; SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
• Themen: NATURE / Ecology, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Applied ecology, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literature: history & criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental