Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/earth-and-world/9780231170871

 > Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin 
Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on 
contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a 
just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a 
politics and ethics that embraces otherness without exploiting 
difference. Rooted firmly in human beings' relationship to the planet 
and to each other, Oliver shows peace is possible only if we maintain 
our ties to earth and world.

Oliver begins with Immanuel Kant and his vision of politics grounded on 
earth as a finite surface shared by humans. She then incorporates Hannah 
Arendt's belief in plural worlds constituted through human 
relationships; Martin Heidegger's warning that alienation from the Earth 
endangers not only politics but also the very essence of being human; 
and Jacques Derrida's meditations on the singular worlds individuals, 
human and otherwise, create and how they inform the reality we inhabit. 
Each of these theorists, Oliver argues, resists the easy idealism of 
world citizenship and globalism, yet they all think about the earth 
against the globe to advance a grounded ethics. They contribute to a 
philosophy that avoids globalization's totalizing and homogenizing 
impulses and instead help build a framework for living within and among 
the world's rich biodiversity. <


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