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Being-in-creation : human responsibility in an endangered world / edited by Brian Treanor, Bruce Ellis Benson, and Norman Wirzba ; contributors, T. Wilson Dickinson [and ten others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Treanor, Brian.
- Series:
- Groundworks (FUP)
- Groundworks : Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Human ecology.
- Creation.
- Theological anthropology--Christianity.
- Theological anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing ordinariness, as revealed by the evolutionary history we share with all life. The contributors to this volume ask us to consider whether the anxiety of unheimlichkeit, which in one form or another absorbed so much of 20th century philosophy, might reveal not our homelessness in the cosmos but a need for a fundamental belongingness and emplacement in it.
- Contents:
- Front ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence; Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality; The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety; Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of; Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien; Creature Discomforts: Levinas's Interpretation of Creation; Reflections from Thoreau's Concord; Creation and the Glory of Creatures; Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs
- Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-DivineNotes; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 24, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-6687-7
- 0-8232-6503-X
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