For Love of Matter

A Contemporary Panpsychism

Freya Mathews

• Éditeur: SUNY Press
• Année: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780791486399
• Sujet: Filosofía
• Sous-sujet: Metafísica filosófica

In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests on the premise that the world is an inert backdrop to human presence rather than a communicative presence in its own right, one capable of dialogical congress with us. Mathews explores the transformative effects of a substitution of the latter, panpsychist premise for the former, materialist one. She suggests that to exist in a dialogical modality is to enter an expanded realm of eros in which the self and world are mutually kindled into a larger, more incandescent state of realization. She argues that any adequate philosophical response to the so-called "environmental crisis" cannot be encompassed within the minor discipline of environmental philosophy but must instead address the full range of existential questions.

Table des matières

• Front Cover
• For Love of Matter: Editors
• For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1. Invitation to Panpsychism
• Part 2. Defense of Panpsychism
• Part 3. A Practice of Encounter
• Appendix 1. A Survey of De-Realization in Modern Philosophy: From Idealism to Poststructuralism
• Appendix 2. Frans Hoogland on ‘Living Country’
• Notes
• Index
• Back Cover