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"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has already proven highly influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume, drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others, builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time.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. ""Diagnosing the Present"" suggests that our times are marked by a facile, flattened-out understanding of time and thus in need of deconstructive dispositions. ""Ecologies"" mobilizes the spectral ontology of deconstruction to argue for an originary environmentality, the constitutive ecological embeddedness of mortal life. ""Nuclear and Other Biodegradabilities,"" examines remains, including such by-products and disintegrations of human culture as nuclear waste, environmental destruction, and species extinctions. ""Environmental Ethics"" seeks to uncover a demand for justice, including human responsibility for suffering beings, that emerges precisely as a response to original differentiation and the mortality and unmasterable alterity it installs in living beings. As such, the book will resonate with readers not only of philosophy, but across the humanities and the social and natural sciences."

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Author:   Philippe Lynes ,  David Wood ,  Karen Barad ,  Timothy Clark
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823279517

ISBN 10:   0823279510
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   27 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Abbreviations for Works by Jacques Derrida Introduction Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, and David Wood Part I. Diagnosing the Present 1. The Eleventh Plague: Thinking Ecologically after Derrida David Wood 2. Thinking after the World: Deconstruction and Last Things Ted Toadvine 3. Scale as a Force of Deconstruction Timothy Clark Part II. Ecologies 4. The Posthuman Promise of the Earth Philippe Lynes 5. Un/limited Ecologies Vicki Kirby 6. Ecology as Event Michael Marder 7. Writing Home: Eco-choro-spectrography John Llewelyn Part III. Nuclear and Other Biodegradabilitie 8. E-phemera: Of Deconstruction, Biodegradability, and Nuclear War Michael Naas 9. Troubling Time/s and Ecologies of Nothingness: On the Im/Possibilities of Living and Dying in the Void Karen Barad 10. Responsibility and the Non(bio)degradable Michael Peterson 11. Extinguishing Ability: How we Became Post-Extinction Persons Claire Colebrook Part IV. Environmental Ethics 12. An Eco-Deconstructive Account of the Emergence of Normativity in “Nature” Matthias Fritsch 13. Opening ethics onto the other shore of another heading Dawne McCance 14. Wallace Stevens’s Birds, or, Derrida and Ecological Poetics Cary Wolfe 15. Earth: Love It or Leave It Kelly Oliver List of Contributors Index

Reviews

Ecology, in its semantic disposition, relates the oikos to the logos, two concepts that Derrida never stopped analyzing. Eco-Deconstruction affirms that in rich, diverse, and inventive ways, and repositions the now extensive work on Derrida and the animal within a broader context of planetary viability. Quite simply, the stellar contributions of this volume manifest a deconstruction that welcomes a whole new environmental space. -- David Wills * Brown University * A terrific collection of essays penned by a stellar group of scholars, Eco-Deconstruction definitively demonstrates the continued relevance of deconstruction in our era of ecological disaster. More than a decade after Derrida's death, Eco-Deconstruction incisively shows us how the tools and concepts central to deconstruction are likewise crucial for thinking about today's pressing environmental problems (nature, life, animals, sustainability, the world, extinction, ecology). No mere echo chamber of agreement, Eco-Deconstruction likewise shows us where deconstruction can be helpfully supplemented with other approaches going forward into an uncertain ecological future. This is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental philosophy. -- Jeffrey Nealon * The Pennsylvania State University * Derrida's last seminars proved inspirational for the burgeoning field of animal studies, but the ecological tenor and wide-ranging environmental implications of his deconstructive approach has received much less attention. This timely, original, and extraordinarily innovative, collection of essays by many of the key thinkers in the field does much to rectify this. It will be an invaluable reference point for all those interested in the intersection of `continental' philosophy, literary criticism, posthumanism, and environmental concerns. -- Mick Smith * Queens University *

Ecology, in its semantic disposition, relates the oikos to the logos, two concepts that Derrida never stopped analyzing. Eco-Deconstruction affirms that in rich, diverse, and inventive ways, and repositions the now extensive work on Derrida and the animal within a broader context of planetary viability. Quite simply, the stellar contributions of this volume manifest a deconstruction that welcomes a whole new environmental space. -- David Wills * Brown University * Derrida has hailed ecology as a 'new dimension of living together. ' This was in 1998. Almost twenty years later, ecology is nothing new: It even risks already having surpassed itself in the sense of no longer having any specific domain. It is clear that ecology traverses all spheres of all existences. The Eco-Deconstruction undertaken in this volume means both an ecology of deconstruction (what is a disseminated oikos? a differing-deferring one? a prosthetic one? One will have to answer . . .) and also a deconstruction of ecology, thus of economy, ecopolitics, ecomythics, and ecosophy. -- Jean-Luc Nancy A terrific collection of essays penned by a stellar group of scholars, Eco-Deconstruction definitively demonstrates the continued relevance of deconstruction in our era of ecological disaster. More than a decade after Derrida's death, Eco-Deconstruction incisively shows us how the tools and concepts central to deconstruction are likewise crucial for thinking about today's pressing environmental problems (nature, life, animals, sustainability, the world, extinction, ecology). No mere echo chamber of agreement, Eco-Deconstruction likewise shows us where deconstruction can be helpfully supplemented with other approaches going forward into an uncertain ecological future. This is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental philosophy. -- Jeffrey Nealon * The Pennsylvania State University * Derrida's last seminars proved inspirational for the burgeoning field of animal studies, but the ecological tenor and wide-ranging environmental implications of his deconstructive approach has received much less attention. This timely, original, and extraordinarily innovative, collection of essays by many of the key thinkers in the field does much to rectify this. It will be an invaluable reference point for all those interested in the intersection of `continental' philosophy, literary criticism, posthumanism, and environmental concerns. -- Mick Smith * Queens University *

Derrida has hailed ecology as a 'new dimension of living together. ' This was in 1998. Almost twenty years later, ecology is nothing new: It even risks already having surpassed itself in the sense of no longer having any specific domain. It is clear that ecology traverses all spheres of all existences. The Eco-Deconstruction undertaken in this volume means both an ecology of deconstruction (what is a disseminated oikos? a differing-deferring one? a prosthetic one? One will have to answer . . .) and also a deconstruction of ecology, thus of economy, ecopolitics, ecomythics, and ecosophy. -- Jean-Luc Nancy Derrida's last seminars proved inspirational for the burgeoning field of animal studies, but the ecological tenor and wide-ranging environmental implications of his deconstructive approach has received much less attention. This timely, original, and extraordinarily innovative, collection of essays by many of the key thinkers in the field does much to rectify this. It will be an invaluable reference point for all those interested in the intersection of `continental' philosophy, literary criticism, posthumanism, and environmental concerns. -- Mick Smith * Queens University * Ecology, in its semantic disposition, relates the oikos to the logos, two concepts that Derrida never stopped analyzing. Eco-Deconstruction affirms that in rich, diverse, and inventive ways, and repositions the now extensive work on Derrida and the animal within a broader context of planetary viability. Quite simply, the stellar contributions of this volume manifest a deconstruction that welcomes a whole new environmental space. -- David Wills * Brown University * A terrific collection of essays penned by a stellar group of scholars, Eco-Deconstruction definitively demonstrates the continued relevance of deconstruction in our era of ecological disaster. More than a decade after Derrida's death, Eco-Deconstruction incisively shows us how the tools and concepts central to deconstruction are likewise crucial for thinking about today's pressing environmental problems (nature, life, animals, sustainability, the world, extinction, ecology). No mere echo chamber of agreement, Eco-Deconstruction likewise shows us where deconstruction can be helpfully supplemented with other approaches going forward into an uncertain ecological future. This is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental philosophy. -- Jeffrey Nealon * The Pennsylvania State University *

Derrida's last seminars proved inspirational for the burgeoning field of animal studies, but the ecological tenor and wide-ranging environmental implications of his deconstructive approach has received much less attention. This timely, original, and extraordinarily innovative, collection of essays by many of the key thinkers in the field does much to rectify this. It will be an invaluable reference point for all those interested in the intersection of `continental' philosophy, literary criticism, posthumanism, and environmental concerns. -- Mick Smith * Queens University * Ecology, in its semantic disposition, relates the oikos to the logos, two concepts that Derrida never stopped analyzing. Eco-Deconstruction affirms that in rich, diverse, and inventive ways, and repositions the now extensive work on Derrida and the animal within a broader context of planetary viability. Quite simply, the stellar contributions of this volume manifest a deconstruction that welcomes a whole new environmental space. -- David Wills * Brown University * A terrific collection of essays penned by a stellar group of scholars, Eco-Deconstruction definitively demonstrates the continued relevance of deconstruction in our era of ecological disaster. More than a decade after Derrida's death, Eco-Deconstruction incisively shows us how the tools and concepts central to deconstruction are likewise crucial for thinking about today's pressing environmental problems (nature, life, animals, sustainability, the world, extinction, ecology). No mere echo chamber of agreement, Eco-Deconstruction likewise shows us where deconstruction can be helpfully supplemented with other approaches going forward into an uncertain ecological future. This is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental philosophy. -- Jeffrey Nealon * The Pennsylvania State University *

Author Information

Matthias Fritsch (Edited By) Matthias Fritsch is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal. He is the author of The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida and Taking Turns with Earth: Ways to Intergenerational Justice through Phenomenology and Deconstruction and co-translator of Heidegger’s The Phenomenology of Religious Life. Philippe Lynes (Edited By) Philippe Lynes is Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is the translator of Derrida’s Advances. David Wood (Edited By) David Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is Deep Time, Dark Times: On Being Geologically Human.

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