For love of matter : a contemporary panpsychism / Freya Mathews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathews, Freya, 1949-

Series:

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panpsychism.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Invitation to Panpsychism

Love and Metaphysics

Defense of Panpsychism

An Argument from Realism

The Way of the One and the Many

A Practice of Encounter

The Priority of Encounter Over Knowledge

Suffering and the Tree of Life

From Pan to Eros and Psyche: The Testimony of the Tower

Moon and Crow: The Double Edge of Eros

A Survey of De-Realization in Modern Philosophy: From Idealism to Poststructuralism

Frans Hoogland on ‘Living Country’

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-208) and index.

ISBN:

9780791486399

0791486397

9781417536160

1417536160

OCLC:

61367779