Overview

In Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Ziga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and caring for the variety of beings that inhabit the earth. Drawing on ecology and sustainability in democratic theory, Ziga demonstrates the transformative potential of a relational ethics that is not only concerned with human animals, but also with the multiplicity of beings on earth, and the relationships in which they are enmeshed. The book offers ways of cultivating and fostering the kinds of relations that are needed to maintain human and more-than-human diversity in order for life to persist. It also calls attention to the quality of the relationships that are needed for life to flourish, advancing our understanding of the diversity of pluralism. Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds ultimately presses us to question our own condition of human animality so that we may reconsider the relations we entertain with one another and with more-than-human forms of life on earth.

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Author:   Didier Zúñiga
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9781487548391

ISBN 10:   1487548397
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   19 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Towards a Relational Ethics with Nature 1. Bound by Reasonableness 2. Vulnerability and the Need for Care 3. To Think and Act Ecologically: The Environment, Human Animality, Nature 4. What Vulnerability Entails: Sustainability and the Limits of Political Pluralism 5. Nature’s Relations: Ontology, Vulnerability, Agency 6. The Democracy of the Neglected: Mutual Understanding and Sustainability in a World of Many Worlds Conclusion: Retrieving Nature Bibliography Index

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Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds is a thought-provoking contribution to political theory that brings together a range of considerations in a novel and interesting way. Didier Zuniga is well acquainted with the various strands of scholarship upon which the book draws, and the argument is flowing, clear, and engaging throughout. - Anna Grear, Professor of Law, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University This is an important book. It is well written and original, making an excellent contribution to increasingly important debates about how humans should interact with the natural world. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers who are interested in the environment and how to rethink human-more-than-human relations. - Jennifer Nedelsky, Professor of Law, Osgoode Law School, York University

This is an important book. It is well written and original, making an excellent contribution to increasingly important debates about how humans should interact with the natural world. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers who are interested in the environment and how to rethink human-more-than-human relations. - Jennifer Nedelsky, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds is a thought-provoking contribution to political theory that brings together a range of considerations in a novel and interesting way. Didier Zuniga is well acquainted with the various strands of scholarship upon which the book draws, and the argument is flowing, clear, and engaging throughout. - Anna Grear, Professor of Law, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University

Author Information

Didier Zúñiga is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University.

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