Part VI: Reimagining past and future. Matthew C. Ally. Introduction / Matthew C. Ally, Damon Boria -- Part I: Sartre and ecology. After the holocene : reimagining Sartre's Venice / William L. McBride -- Part II: Art and phenomenology. "Soundscape ecology and a Sartrean phenomenology of listening" / Craig Matarrese -- "The environmental gaze : re-reading Sartre through Guido van Helten's No Exit Murals" / Joe Balay -- Part III: Ethics. Three Sartrean motivations for environmentalism / Kiki Berk, Joshua Tepley -- I am what I buy : bad faith and consumer culture / by Elizabeth Butterfield -- Buying Green : a trap for fools, or, Sartre on ethical consumerism / Michael Butler -- Part IV: Dialectics and politics. Heralding Kairos : the depths of seriality and creating earth as a work of art / Austin Hayden Smidt -- Counter-finality and the living world / Paul Gyllenhammer -- Hyperobjects and the practico-inert : ecology and the critique of dialectical reason / Simon Gusman, rjen Kleinherenbrink -- Part V: Ontology and metaphysics. Sartrean ethics meets Deloria's native american metaphysics : a spatialized existentialist ethic / Kimberly Engels -- Nothingness, emptiness, and ecology : a reframing of Sartre's early ontology through Buddhist metaphysics / Dane Sawyer -- Part VI: Reimagining past and future. Toward ecologically-oriented political projects : reimagining existentialism at Algren's Cabin / Damon Boria -- After the holocene : reimagining Sartre's Venice / Matthew C. Ally.
Summary:
"Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre's existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch. Contributors variously discuss phenomenology, ethics, politics, ontology, and metaphysics. Earthly locations include the Icelandic coast, the Minnesota woods, the Indiana Dunes, the Chinese Great Plain, the Venetian Lagoon, and more; worldly situations include that of the artist, the activist, the consumer, the tourist, and more. Through their diversity of methods and substantive concerns, the chapters reveal a wealth of critical and heuristic resources within Sartre's thought for thinking through and engaging the planetary ecological crisis and its direct ties to global social, economic, and political crises. In full recognition of Sartre's personal distaste for agrarian settings and wilderness, and some ostensibly anti-environmental philosophical and literary moments, the contributors take the proper Sartrean line that how we view nature and our relationship to nature is neither closed nor predetermined. Like life itself, our worldly relationship to earthly nature"-- Provided by publisher. "Earthly Engagements brings together scholars who take up Jean-Paul Sartre's thought as a critical and heuristic resource to think through the planetary socio-ecological crisis. The volume advances the ecological voice in Sartre studies and the Sartrean voice in environmental studies, from environmental philosophy to eco-criticism"-- Provided by publisher.
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