Creaturely Cosmologies - Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation

This book asserts that metaphysics is a fundamental factor in systemic brutality toward animals, plants, and marginalized populations and examines Whitehead's process-relational thought and the nonviolent Indian tradition of Jainism in order to offer a new perspective on metaphysics.

List of contents

1 From Frameworks of Recognition to Frameworks of Relevance
2 The Strange Creatures of Process Thought
3 Disruptive Souls in Jain Cosmology
4 Intra-Actions 1: Practices of Freedom in Jainism
5 Intra-Actions 2: Practices of "Reworlding" in Process Thought
6 Provocative Live Without Robbery

About the author

Brianne Donaldson is the Bhagwaan Mahavir/Chao Family Foundation fellow in Jain studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is the author of Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (2015), and the edited collections Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment (2014), and The Future of Meat without Animals (with Christopher Carter) (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Brianne Donaldson
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2015
• EAN: 9781498501798
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0179-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Contemporary Whitehead Studies
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works