Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!  Meanwhile ...

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-apollo

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> http://cup.columbia.edu/book/earth-and-world/9780231170871
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>> 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.
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> 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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