Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture

by Freya Mathews

Overview

Argues that the environmental crisis is symptomatic of much deeper crises in modern civilization.

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791483961
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	02/01/2012
Series:	SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	238
File size:	331 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


Part 1: Culture: The Love of Ground

1. The Last Crane: Modernity and the End of Grace
2. Letting the World Grow Old
3. Becoming Native

Part 2: Ground Studies

4. Julia's Farm: Fertility
5. Hamilton Downs: Philosophy in the Field...of Being
6. The White Heron: Grace and the Native Self

Part 3: Views from the Ground

7. The Merri Creek: To the Source of the Given
8. Barrmunga: Return to the Doorstep of Night

Afterword: CERES: Singing the Ground


Notes


Index