Freya Mathews

For Love of Matter (eBook, PDF)

A Contemporary Panpsychism

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Produktbeschreibung

In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests on the premise that the world is an inert backdrop to human presence rather than a communicative presence in its own right, one capable of dialogical congress with us. Mathews explores the transformative effects of a substitution of the latter, panpsychist premise for the former, materialist one. She suggests that to exist in a dialogical modality is to enter an expanded realm of eros in which the self and world are mutually kindled into a larger, more incandescent state of realization. She argues that any adequate philosophical response to the so-called "environmental crisis" cannot be encompassed within the minor discipline of environmental philosophy but must instead address the full range of existential questions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791486399
• Artikelnr.: 60501630

Autorenporträt

Freya Mathews is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at La Trobe University. She is the author of The Ecological Self and editor of Ecology and Democracy.