Eco-deconstruction : Derrida and environmental philosophy /
Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, and David Wood, editors.
- First edition.
- New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations
- Groundworks: ecological issues in philosophy and theology .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Part I. Diagnosing the present. The eleventh plague : thinking ecologically after Derrida / Thinking after the world : deconstruction and last things / Scale as a force of deconstruction / Part II. Ecologies. The posthuman promise of the earth / Un/limited ecologies / Ecology as event / Writing home : eco-choro-spectrography / Part III. Nuclear and other biodegradabilities. E-phemera : of deconstruction, biodegradability, and nuclear war / Troubling time/s and ecologies of nothingness : re-turning, re-membering, and facing the incalculable / Responsibility and the non(bio)degradable / Extinguishing ability : how we became postextinction persons / Part IV. Environmental ethics. An eco-deconstructive account of the emergence of normativity in "nature" / Opening ethics onto the other shore of another heading / Wallace Stevens's birds, or, Derrida and ecological poetics / Earth : love it or leave it? / Mattias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, and David Wood -- David Wood -- Ted Toadvine -- Timothy Clark -- Philippe Lynes -- Vicki Kirby -- Michael Marder -- John Llewelyn -- Michael Naas -- Karen Barad -- Michael Peterson -- Claire Colebrook -- Matthias Fritsch -- Dawne McCance -- Cary Wolfe -- Kelly Oliver.
"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has already proven highly influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume, drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others, builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time." -- 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.