Futures of Life Death on Earth Derrida''s General Ecology

This book offers the first philosophical treatment of biocultural sustainability and eco-deconstruction, presenting the most developed treatment of the notions of survival and life death in Derrida to date.

About the author

Philippe Lynes is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He held the 2017-8 Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and earned his PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University in Montréal, Québec. Lynes's research situates itself at the intersections of contemporary continental philosophy and the environmental humanities. He is the author of Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida's General Ecology forthcoming from Rowman & Littlefield International, and co-editor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is also a translator of French philosophy, with a translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida's Advances published in 2017 with the University of Minnesota Press. He is currently working on his second book Dearth: Eco-Deconstruction after Speculative Realism on Blanchot, Derrida and Heidegger.

Summary

This book offers the first philosophical treatment of biocultural sustainability and eco-deconstruction, presenting the most developed treatment of the notions of survival and life death in Derrida to date.

Product details

• Authors: Philippe Lynes
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2018
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781786609953
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-995-3
• Pages: 284
• Series: Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies; Future Perfect: Images of the; Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies; Future Perfect: Images of the
• Subjects: History of Ideas, Biopolitics, Derrida, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Posthumanism, New Materialism, Environmental Humanities, Anthropocene, Western philosophy from c 1800, french philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy, posthuman, Deconstruction, Speculative realism, Modern European Philosophy, Ecolinguistic