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.

List of contents

Introduction: General Text, Death and Time / 1. Survivance and General Ecology / 2. Transcendence and the Surviving Present / 3. Resistance and Ex-appropriation: Letting Life Live-On / 4. Animmanence: Life Death & The Passion and Perpetual Detour of Difference / 5.: Biopolitics and Double Affirmation: Step/nots Beyond an Ecology of the Commons / Bibliography / Notes

About the author

Philippe Lynes is Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in interdisciplinary humanities from Concordia University, Canada. He is the co-editor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Fordham UP, forthcoming 2018), as well as a translator of French philosophy,most notably of Derrida's Advances (Univocal, 2017).

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
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781538158845
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5884-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Modern philosophy: since c 1800