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Futures of Life Death on Earth


Futures of Life Death on Earth

Derrida's General Ecology
Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies

von: Philippe Lynes

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Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield International
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 19.11.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9781786609960
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 284

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<span><span>Life on earth is currently approaching what has been called the sixth mass extinction, also known as the Holocene or anthropocene extinction. Unlike the previous five, this extinction is due to the destructive practices of a single species, our own. Up to 50% of plant and animal species face extinction by the year 2100, as well as 90% of the world’s languages. Biocultural diversity is a recent appellation for thinking together the earth’s biological, cultural and linguistic diversity, the related causes of their extinctions and the related steps that need to be taken to ensure their sustainability. This book turns to the work of Jacques Derrida to propose a notion of ‘general ecology’ as a way to respond to this loss, to think the ethics, ontology and epistemology at stake in biocultural sustainability and the life and death we differentially share on earth with its others. It articulates an appreciation of the ecological and biocultural stakes of deconstruction and provokes new ways of thinking about a more just sharing of the earth.</span></span>
<span><span>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.</span></span>
<span><span>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 &amp; The Passion and Perpetual Detour of Difference / 5.: Biopolitics and Double Affirmation: Step/nots Beyond an Ecology of the Commons / Bibliography / Notes</span></span>
<span>Philippe Lynes is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He held the 2017-8 Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and earned his PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University in Montréal, Québec. Lynes's research situates itself at the intersections of contemporary continental philosophy and the environmental humanities. He is the author of </span>
<span>Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida's General Ecology</span>
<span> forthcoming from Rowman &amp; Littlefield International, and co-editor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of </span>
<span>Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy</span>
<span> (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is also a translator of French philosophy, with a translation of and introduction to Jacques Derrida's </span>
<span>Advances</span>
<span> published in 2017 with the University of Minnesota Press. He is currently working on his second book </span>
<span>Dearth: Eco-Deconstruction after Speculative Realism</span>
<span> on Blanchot, Derrida and Heidegger.</span>

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