Every Living Thing : The Politics of Life in Common / Jenell Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Jenell, author.

Series:

RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.

RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and why it matters. Jenell Johnson studies arguments on behalf of life-not just of the human or animal variety, but all life. She considers, for example, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's fight for water, deep ecologists' Earth First! activism, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, and astrophysicists' positions on Martian microbes. What she reveals is that this advocacy-vital advocacy-expands our view of what counts as life and shows us what it would mean for the moral standing of human life to be extended to life itself. Including short interviews with celebrated ecological writer Dorion Sagan, former NASA Planetary Protection Officer Catharine Conley, and leading figure in Indigenous and environmental studies Kyle Whyte, Every Living Thing provides a capacious view of life in the natural world. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in biodiversity, bioethics, and the environment.

Contents:

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes to Introduction

Chapter 1: Life in Water, Life in Stone | The Limits of Bioidentification

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2: A Sense of Commonality | Bioidentification in Deep Ecology

Notes to Chapter 2

Chapter 3: Death Itself | The Politics of Human Extinction

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4: "This Universe Belongs to Life" | Planetary Protection and Planetary Belonging

Notes to Chapter 4

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271096278

0271096276