Eco-deconstruction Derrida And Environmental Philosophy - Fordham University Press

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 Presence, Has Already Proven Highly Influential In Posthumanism And Animal Studies, The Present Volume, Drawing On Published And Unpublished Work By Derrida And Others, Builds On These Insights To Address The Most Pressing Environmental Issues Of Our Time.the Volume Brings Together Fifteen Prominent Scholars, From A Wide Variety Of Related Fields, Including Eco-phenomenology, Eco-hermeneutics, New Materialism, Posthumanism, Animal Studies, Vegetal Philosophy, Science And Technology Studies, Environmental Humanities, Eco-criticism, Earth Art And Aesthetics, And Analytic Environmental Ethics. Overall, Eco-deconstruction Offers An Account Of Differential Relationality Explored In A Non-totalizable Ecological Context That Addresses Our Times In Both An Ontological And A Normative Register.the Book Is Divided Into Four Sections.