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Earthly Engagements brings together scholars who take up Jean-Paul Sartre's thought as a critical and heuristic resource to think through the planetary socio-ecological crisis. The volume advances the ecological voice in Sartre studies and the Sartrean voice in environmental studies, from environmental philosophy to eco-criticism.
List of contents
Contents
Foreword
Introduction by Matthew C. Ally & Damon Boria
Part I. Sartre and Ecology
Chapter 1. "Sartre and Problems in the Philosophy of Ecology - with a Thirty-Year Update" by William L. McBride
Part II. Art and Phenomenology
Chapter 2. "Soundscape Ecology and a Sartrean Phenomenology of Listening" by Craig Matarrese
Chapter 3. "The Ecological Gaze: Re-Reading Sartre through Guido van Helten's No Exit Murals" by Joe Balay
Part III. Ethics
Chapter 4. "Three Sartrean Motivations for Environmentalism" by Kiki Berk and Joshua Tepley
Chapter 5. "I Am What I Buy: Bad Faith and Consumer Culture" by Elizabeth Butterfield
Chapter 6. "Buying Green: A Trap for Fools, or, Sartre on Ethical Consumerism" by Michael Butler
Part IV. Dialectics and Politics
Chapter 7. "Heralding Kairos: The Depths of Seriality and Creating Earth as a Work of Art" by Austin Hayden Smidt
Chapter 8. "Counter-Finality and the Living World" by Paul Gyllenhammer
Chapter 9. "Hyperobjects and the Practico-Inert: Ecology and the Critique of Dialectical Reason" by Simon Gusman and Arjen Kleinherenbrink
Part V. Ontology and Metaphysics
Chapter 10. "Sartrean Ethics Meets Deloria's Native American Metaphysics: A Spatialized Existentialist Ethic" by Kimberly Engels
Chapter 11. "Nothingness, Emptiness, and Ecology: A Reframing of Sartre's Early Ontology through Buddhist Metaphysics" by Dane Sawyer
Part VI. Reimagining Past and Future
Chapter 12. "Toward Ecologically-Oriented Political Projects: Reimagining Existentialism at Algren's Cabin" by Damon Boria
Chapter 13. "After the Holocene: Reimagining Sartre's Venice" by Matthew C. Ally
About the author
Matthew C. Ally is professor of philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York.
Damon Boria is associate professor of philosophy at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University.
Summary
Earthly Engagements brings together scholars who take up Jean-Paul Sartre’s thought as a critical and heuristic resource to think through the planetary socio-ecological crisis. The volume advances the ecological voice in Sartre studies and the Sartrean voice in environmental studies, from environmental philosophy to eco-criticism.
