Brianne Donaldson

Creaturely Cosmologies

Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asserts that metaphysics is a fundamental factor in systemic brutality toward animals, plants, and marginalized populations and examines Whitehead's process-relational thought and the nonviolent Indian tradition of Jainism in order to offer a new perspective on metaphysics.

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Produktdetails

• Contemporary Whitehead Studies
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781498501798
• ISBN-10: 1498501796
• Artikelnr.: 42032163

Autorenporträt

Brianne Donaldson is the Bhagwaan Mahavir/Chao Family Foundation fellow in Jain studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She is the author of Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (2015), and the edited collections Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment (2014), and The Future of Meat without Animals (with Christopher Carter) (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1 From Frameworks of Recognition to Frameworks of Relevance 2 The Strange
Creatures of Process Thought 3 Disruptive Souls in Jain Cosmology 4
Intra-Actions 1: Practices of Freedom in Jainism 5 Intra-Actions 2:
Practices of "Reworlding" in Process Thought 6 Provocative Live Without
Robbery