Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-348) and index.
Contents:
Witness to the face of a river: thinking with Levinas and Thoreau / Edward F. Mooney with Lyman F. Mower. Alterity, value, autonomy: Levinas and environmental ethics / Christian Diehm -- Facing animals / Peter Atterton -- Agency, vulnerability, and societas: toward a Levinasian politics of the animal / Doug Halls -- Scarce resources? Levinas, animals, and the environment / Diane Perpich -- Ruined faces / Deborah Bird Rose -- Levinas and Adorno: can there be an ethics of nature? / Eric Sean Nelson -- The earthly politics of ethical an-arch♯: Arendt, Levinas, and being with others / Mick Smith -- Enjoyment and its discontents: on separation from nature in Levinas / Ted Toadvine -- Earthly morality and the other: from Levinas to environmental sustainability / Silvia Benso -- Rethinking responsibility in an age of anthropogenic climate catastrophe / William Edelglass -- Toward a relational model of anthropocentrism: a Levinasian approach to the ethics of climate change / J. Aaron Simmons -- The anarchical goodness of creation: monotheism in another's voice / James Hatley -- Witness to the face of a river: thinking with Levinas and Thoreau / Edward F. Mooney with Lyman F. Mower.
Summary:
"Applies Emmanuel Levinas's thought in approaching environmental philosophy from both humanistic and nonanthropocentric points of view, arguing that themes at the heart of his work--the significance of the ethical, responsibility, alterity, the vulnerability of the body, bearing witness, and politics--are important for thinking about many of our most pressing contemporary environmental questions" --Provided by publisher.
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