For Love of Matter
A Contemporary Panpsychism
Freya Mathews
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For Love of Matter
A Contemporary Panpsychism
Freya Mathews
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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.
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- 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