Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question - The Immanence of Life

This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the environmental crisis stems from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a metaphysics that privileged a concern with ontological 'being' over material conditions.

List of contents

1. Prolegomena 2. Being/Life: Heidegger in Face of the Environmental Question 3. The Phenomenology of Life and the Facticity of Human Existence 4. The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, the Ontological Turn and the Order of Life 5. The Environmental Question and the Paths of Thinking: the History of Being and the Immanence of Life

About the author

Enrique Leff is Emeritus Professor in the Institute for Social Research and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Emeritus Researcher at the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology, Mexico. He was the former Coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Environment Program. He is the author of Political Ecology: Deconstructing Capital and Territorializing Life (2021) and Green Production: Towards an Environmental Rationality (1995).

Product details

• Authors: Enrique Leff
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032606569
• ISBN: 978-1-032-60656-9
• No. of pages: 294
• Weight: 580 g
• Series: Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Ethnic Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Regional Studies, Social impact of environmental issues, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Regional / International studies, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Marxism & Communism, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Phenomenology and Existentialism