Futures of Life Death on Earth - Derrida''s General Ecology

This book offers the first philosophical treatment of biocultural sustainability and eco-deconstruction, presenting the most developed treatment of the notions of survival and life death in Derrida to date.

Sommario

Introduction: General Text, Death and Time / 1. Survivance and General Ecology / 2. Transcendence and the Surviving Present / 3. Resistance and Ex-appropriation: Letting Life Live-On / 4. Animmanence: Life Death & The Passion and Perpetual Detour of Difference / 5.: Biopolitics and Double Affirmation: Step/nots Beyond an Ecology of the Commons / Bibliography / Notes

Info autore

Philippe Lynes is Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in interdisciplinary humanities from Concordia University, Canada. He is the co-editor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Fordham UP, forthcoming 2018), as well as a translator of French philosophy,most notably of Derrida's Advances (Univocal, 2017).

Riassunto

This book offers the first philosophical treatment of biocultural sustainability and eco-deconstruction, presenting the most developed treatment of the notions of survival and life death in Derrida to date.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Philippe Lynes
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781786609953
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-995-3
• Pagine: 284
• Serie: Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies; Future Perfect: Images of the; Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies; Future Perfect: Images of the
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800