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Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature by humans.
Featuring a dialogue with Mary Robinson (former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland), which addresses the current climate emergency, this book engages the question of ecological hospitality: what does it mean to be guests of the earth as well as hosts? It includes chapters by cutting-edge scholars in the philosophy of nature, as well as artists, scientists, psychologists, and theologians. The contributors discuss proposals for a new "Poetics of the Earth," opening horizons beyond our perilous Anthropocene to a new Symbiocene of mutual collaboration between human and non-human species.
Focusing on the central role that the human psyche plays in answering our current ecological emergency, Hosting Earth is for anybody invested in the future of our planet and how psychological, psychoanalytic, and philosophical thought can reorient the current conversation about ecology.
List of contents
Preface: Towards a Hospitality of Nature Part I: On Climate Justice: An Interview with Mary Robinson Part II: Poetics of the Earth 1. Poetics of Earth 2. Fish Live in Water 3. People with Leaves: Invitations into Ecological Connection 4. Salvaging Islands Part III: Psychologies of the Earth 5. Bringing it Back to Nature 6. Climate Emergency and Radical Ethics: Colonialism, Racial Injustice, and Climate Justice 7. The Thought of the Desert and the Desert of Thought 8. Cosmological Persons: Bringing Healing Down to Earth Part IV: Philosophies of the Earth 9. Faithful to the Earth: Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Heidegger 10. At the Threshold: Nature's Art of the Possible 11. Rethinking a Hospitality of Nature: Three Colloquies with David Storey Part V: Ecologies of the Earth 12. Environmental Epidemiology 13. Ecology, Economics, and Ethics 14. Ecology and Economy 15. Atmospheric Intervention 16. Listening to the Earth
About the author
Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and author and editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. He is founding director of The Guestbook Project for Narrative Hospitality and has been engaged in developing a postnationalist philosophy of peace and empathy over several decades.
Peter Klapes is a graduate in Philosophy at Boston College. His main philosophical interests include psychoanalysis, the philosophy of literature, and contemporary continental philosophy and his writing has appeared in a number of international journals. Peter currently serves as Executive Manager of The Guestbook Project.
Urwa Hameed studied Political Science, International Relations, and Managing for Social Impact at Boston College. She has written on the role of women in politics in Pakistan, and is also a founder and President of the non-profit, Free Immigrations Services.
Summary
Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature by humans.
