Eco-deconstruction : Derrida and environmental philosophy /
"Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), with its relentless interrogation of the anthropocentric metaphysics of prese...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2018.
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| Edició: | First edition. |
| Col·lecció: | Groundworks (New York, N.Y.)
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt201mp8w |
| Sumari: | "Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), with its relentless interrogation of the anthropocentric metaphysics of presence, has already proven highly influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume, drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others, builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time."--Publisher's description A collection bringing together a wide-varietyof world-renowned scholars on the import of Derrida's philosophy with respectto the current environmental crisis, our ecological relationships to 'nature'and the earth, our responsibilities with respect to climate change, pollution, and nuclear destruction, and the ethics and politics at stake in responding tothese crises. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823279531 0823279537 9780823279500 0823279502 9780823279517 0823279510 |