Elemental difference and the climate of the body / Emily Anne Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Emily, author.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy.

Studies in Feminist Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Political aspects.

Human ecology.

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Climatic changes.

Human body (Philosophy).

Difference (Philosophy).

Equality--Philosophy.

Equality.

Feminist theory.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 309 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Political hierarchies and ecological crises are often considered to be two different problems. For example, many speak in the present of parallel concerns: climate change and racial injustice. Emily Anne Parker argues rather that these concerns share a common cause in the polis. Polis is an ancient Greek term for the city-state, from which the English term political derives. But polis is more than a term. It is a philosophy according to which there is one complete human body, and that body is meant to govern all other things. In that sense there are not two concerns, but instead one concern: to perceive the ways in which this tradition of the polis constrains the present. Emily Anne Parker bridges the insights of social constructionism and new materialisms to create a philosophy of elemental difference.

Contents:

Introduction. Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Difference

Part 1. A Philosophy of Elemental Difference. A revised Irigarayan study of the hierarchy of form and matter, this time without sexual difference

Performativity and political ecology, matter's politics

Latour's modern is Fanon's Manichaean

Part 2. The Climate Of The Body. Sylvia Wynter and the climate of biocentric man

The problem is the one, the body.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-757511-0

0-19-757510-2

OCLC:

1243262233