Eco-deconstruction : Derrida and environmental philosophy /

"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 prese...

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Other Authors: Fritsch, Matthias (Editor), Lynes, Philippe (Editor), Wood, David, 1946- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Groundworks (New York, N.Y.)
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mattias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, and David Wood
  • Part I. Diagnosing the present. The eleventh plague : thinking ecologically after Derrida / David Wood
  • Thinking after the world : deconstruction and last things / Ted Toadvine
  • Scale as a force of deconstruction / Timothy Clark
  • Part II. Ecologies. The posthuman promise of the earth / Philippe Lynes
  • Un/limited ecologies / Vicki Kirby
  • Ecology as event / Michael Marder
  • Writing home : eco-choro-spectrography / John Llewelyn
  • Part III. Nuclear and other biodegradabilities. E-phemera : of deconstruction, biodegradability, and nuclear war / Michael Naas
  • Troubling time/s and ecologies of nothingness : re-turning, re-membering, and facing the incalculable / Karen Barad
  • Responsibility and the non(bio)degradable / Michael Peterson
  • Extinguishing ability : how we became postextinction persons / Claire Colebrook
  • Part IV. Environmental ethics. An eco-deconstructive account of the emergence of normativity in "nature" / Matthias Fritsch
  • Opening ethics onto the other shore of another heading / Dawne McCance
  • Wallace Stevens's birds, or, Derrida and ecological poetics / Cary Wolfe
  • Earth : love it or leave it? / Kelly Oliver.