| Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture Contributor(s): Mathews, Freya (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791463087 ISBN-13: 9780791463086 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: Argues that the environmental crisis is symptomatic of much deeper crises in modern civilization. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 304.280 |
| LCCN: 2004042985 |
| Series: SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.42" W x 9.06" (0.69 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this sequel to For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, also published by SUNY Press, Freya Mathews argues that replacing the materialist premise of modern civilization with a panpsychist one transforms the entire fabric of culture in profound ways. She claims that the environmental crisis is a symptom of deeper issues facing modern civilization arising from the loss of the very meaning of culture. To come to grips with this crisis requires a change in the metaphysical premise of modernity deeper than any as yet envisaged even by the radical ecology movement. This is a change with profound implications for the full range of existential questions and not merely for questions regarding our relationship with nature. |