Reoccupy earth: notes toward an other beginning

Habit rules our lives. While many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell ecological disaster. Beyond consumerism, other ways of living are clearly possible. Reoccupy Earth shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Reinhabiting the earth -- Chapter 1. On the way to econstruction -- Chapter 2. The idea of ecophenomenology -- Chapter 3. Ecological imagination: a whiteheadian exercise in temporal phronesis -- Chapter 4. The eleventh plague: thinking ecologically after Derrida -- Chapter 5. Things at the edge of the world -- Chapter 6. Reversals and transformations -- Chapter 7. Touched by touching: toward a carnal hermeneutics -- Chapter 8. My place in the sun -- Chapter 9. On being haunted by the future -- Chapter 10. Beyond narcissistic humanism: or, in the face of anthropogenic climate change, is there a case for voluntary human extinction? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits are integral to narratives of the good life, to social norms and expectations, as well as to economic reality. Such shared shapes are vital. Yet while many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell disaster. Beyond consumerism, other forms of life and patterns of dwelling are clearly possible. But how can we get there from here? This text shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling