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Zusatztext Throughout Elizabeth V. Spelman's Trash Talks Revelations In The Rubbish! there is a whole lot of worldly behaviour to ponder upon so far as the lasting trajectory of waste is concerned. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth V. Spelman is Professor of Philosophy and Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities at Smith College. Trash Talks! her fourth book! shares with her earlier work on repair a preoccupation with mining philosophically rich features of everyday activities. She lives and produces rubbish in Northampton! Massachusetts. Klappentext Our relation to rejectamenta includes much more than shedding and tossing. We maintain intimate bonds with the dumped and discarded. Scavenging with abandon from sundry sources! Spelman explores the extent to which we rely on trash and waste to make sense of our lives and to shape connections among us. Zusammenfassung Our notorious habits of disposal appear to have put us well on the way to making the earth inhospitable to life. But our relation to rejectamenta includes much more than shedding and tossing. Trash Talks offers a portrait of the surprisingly intimate bonds we maintain with the dumped and discarded. Scavenging with abandon from sundry sources, Elizabeth V. Spelman explores the extent to which we rely on trash and waste to make sense of our lives and to shapeconnections among us. Examples are deliriously rich: We use people's rubbish to gain otherwise hard-to-get information about them. We trumpet wastefulness to proclaim our superior standing. We appear to think that there is a "right" relation to trash and that not having it betrays flaws in one's character orvery being. We are intrigued by or in distress over the idea that evolution is a prodigiously wasteful process. In the ubiquitous heaps of our garbage and trash, some see consequences of the clamorous dissatisfaction so worrisome to our ancient sages, while others find confirmation of a flourishing consumer economy. We count on there being telling differences between those who know waste when they see it and those who don't. While we may want to shove debris and detritus out of sight, many ofour most impassioned projects involve keeping them resolutely in mind. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter One: Combing Through the Trash; Chapter Two: A Taste for Waste; Chapter Three: On Taking Out the Trash; Chapter Four: Evolutionary Trash; Chapter Five: Desire! Dissatisfaction and Disposability; Chapter Six: On Knowing Waste When You See It; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index ...
