Heidegger and the Earth : : Essays in Environmental Philosophy / / Gail Stenstad, Ladelle McWhorter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: McWhorter, Ladelle,; Stenstad, Gail ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Some of the fundamental questions of our time are ecological - urgent environmental problems demand newly conceived solutions for the betterment and preservation of life on this planet. In this newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Heidegger and the Earth, the contributors approach contemporary ecological issues through the medium of Heidegger's thought.Amid pressing concerns about wildlife and wilderness preservation, agricultural practices, and technological innovation, contributors discuss how thinking with Heidegger in the twenty-first century yields creative ideas about the natural world that are unconstrained by traditional theoretical frameworks. The conflicting viewpoints in some of the essays will inspire further conversation and debate among readers and break apart established thought patterns. Unconventional and provocative, Heidegger and the Earth urges us to set aside what we think we know in order to work through ecological problems and to discover new ways of living in the world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations: Selected Works by Martin Heidegger -- Editors' Introduction / McWhorter, Ladelle -- PART ONE. Thinking Earth -- 1. Guilt as Management Technology: A Call to Heideggerian Reflection / McWhorter, Ladelle -- 2. Heidegger and Ecology / Padrutt, Hanspeter -- 3. Earth-Thinking and Transformation / Maly, Kenneth -- 4. Singing the Earth / Stenstad, Gail -- 5. Call of the Earth: Endowment and (Delayed) Response / Mugerauer, Robert -- PART TWO. Animals and the World -- 6. The Word's Silent Spring: Heidegger and Herder on Animality and the Origin of Language / Greaves, Tom -- 7. Environmental Management in the 'Age of the World Picture' / Skocz, Dennis -- 8. Humanity as Shepherd of Being: Heidegger's Philosophy and the Animal Other / Turner, Donald -- PART THREE. Poēsis and Dwelling -- 9. The Path of a Thinking, Poeticizing Building: The Strange Uncanniness of Human Being on Earth / davis, steven -- 10. There Where Nothing Happens: The Poetry of Space in Heidegger and Arellano / Barbaza, Remmon E. -- 11. Meeting Place / Davis, Thomas -- 12. Eating Ereignis, or: Conversation on a Suburban Lawn / McWhorter, Ladelle / Stenstad, Gail -- 13. Down-to-Earth Mystery / Stenstad, Gail -- Selected Works / Heidegger, Martin -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter