Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the HoloceneMatthew C. Ally, Damon Boria Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch. Contributors variously discuss phenomenology, ethics, politics, ontology, and metaphysics. Earthly locations include the Icelandic coast, the Minnesota woods, the Indiana Dunes, the Chinese Great Plain, the Venetian Lagoon, and more; worldly situations include that of the artist, the activist, the consumer, the tourist, and more. Through their diversity of methods and substantive concerns, the chapters reveal a wealth of critical and heuristic resources within Sartre’s thought for thinking through and engaging the planetary ecological crisis and its direct ties to global social, economic, and political crises. In full recognition of Sartre’s personal distaste for agrarian settings and wilderness, and some ostensibly anti-environmental philosophical and literary moments, the contributors take the proper Sartrean line that how we view nature and our relationship to nature is neither closed nor predetermined. Like life itself, our worldly relationship to earthly nature is rooted in the sufficiency and open-endedness of freedom. |
Contents
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Sartre and Ecology | 11 |
Sartre and Problems in the Philosophy of Ecologywith a ThirtyYear Update | 13 |
Art and Phenomenology | 27 |
Soundscape Ecology and a Sartrean Phenomenology of Listening | 29 |
The Environmental Gaze | 47 |
Ethics | 69 |
Three Sartrean Motivations for Environmentalism | 71 |
Counter Finality and the Living World | 171 |
Hyperobjects and the PracticoInert | 189 |
Ontology and Metaphysics | 209 |
Sartrean Ethics Meets Delorias Native American Metaphysics | 211 |
Nothingness Emptiness and Ecology | 233 |
Reimagining Past and Future | 255 |
Toward Ecologically Oriented Political Projects | 257 |
After the Holocene | 281 |
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