Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene

Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars to explore the planetary ecological crisis through Sartre's existential thought, highlighting the interconnected earthly and worldly crises of the post-Holocene era. The collection explores phenomenology, ethics, politics, ontology, and metaphysics, with diverse chapters discussing various earthly locations and worldly situations. The contributors argue that Sartre's thought offers critical and heuristic resources for engaging the crisis and its social, economic, and political dimensions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 350 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene is a collection of essays edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria that explores the planetary ecological crisis through the lens of Sartre's existential thought. The contributors discuss phenomenology, ethics, politics, ontology, and metaphysics, and examine various earthly and worldly situations, including the Icelandic coast, the Minnesota woods, the Indiana Dunes, the Chinese Great Plain, and the Venetian Lagoon. They argue that how we view nature and our relationship to it is neither closed nor predetermined, but rather rooted in the sufficiency and open-endedness of freedom. Despite Sartre's personal distaste for agrarian settings and wilderness, the contributors take the proper Sartrean line that our worldly relationship to earthly nature is not predetermined. 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.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793638687