Free Download O'neil Van Horn, "On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics"
English | ISBN: 1531505562 | 2023 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
A bold, theoretical, and pragmatic book that looks to soil as a symbol for constructive possibilities for hope and planetary political action in the Anthropocene.
Climate change is here. Its ravaging effects will upend our interconnected ecosystems, and yet those effects will play out disproportionately among the planet's nearly 8 billion human inhabitants. On the Ground explores how one might account for the many paradoxical tensions posed by the Anthropocene: tensions between planetarity and particularity, connectivity and contextuality, entanglement and exclusion. Using the philosophical and theological idea of "ground," Van Horn argues that ground―when read as earth-ground, as soil―offers a symbol for conceiving of the effects of climate change as collective and yet located, as communal and yet differential. In so doing, he offers critical interventions on theorizations of hope and political action amid the crises of climate change.
Drawing on soil science, theopoetics, feminist ethics, poststructuralism, process philosophy, and more,
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