An ontology of trash : the disposable and its problematic nature / Greg Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Greg, 1975-

Series:

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics.

SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refuse and refuse disposal--Moral and ethical aspects.

Refuse and refuse disposal.

Refuse and refuse disposal--Philosophy.

Ontology.

Environmental responsibility.

Refuse and refuse disposal--Psychological aspects.

Waste minimization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes … What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill?In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcendence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of salutary change.

Contents:

Waste

The body

Food

The city

Trash

Human extinction

Before the end.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480588

0791480585

9781429458054

1429458054

OCLC:

85860126