1st Edition
Hosting Earth Facing the Climate Emergency
Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature by humans.
Featuring a dialogue with Mary Robinson (former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland), which addresses the current climate emergency, this book engages the question of ecological hospitality: what does it mean to be guests of the earth as well as hosts? It includes chapters by cutting-edge scholars in the philosophy of nature, as well as artists, scientists, psychologists, and theologians. The contributors discuss proposals for a new "Poetics of the Earth", opening horizons beyond our perilous Anthropocene to a new Symbiocene of mutual collaboration between human and non-human species.
Focusing on the central role that the human psyche plays in answering our current ecological emergency, Hosting Earth is for anybody invested in the future of our planet and how psychological, psychoanalytic, and philosophical thought can reorient the current conversation about ecology.
Preface: Towards a Hospitality of Nature
Richard Kearney
Part I: On Climate Justice: An Interview with Mary Robinson by Richard Kearney
Part II: Poetics of the Earth
1. Poetics of Earth: A Colloquy
Melissa Fitzpatrick, Brian Treanor, Catherine Keller, and Jason Wirth
2. Fish Live in Water
John Manderson
3. People with Leaves: Invitations into Ecological Connection
Jane D. Marsching
4. Salvaging Islands
Fanny Howe
Part III: Psychologies of the Earth
5. Bringing It Back to Nature
James Morley, Sean McGrath, Edward Casey, and Marjolein Oele in conversation with Matthew Clemente
6. Climate Emergency and Radical Ethics: Colonialism, Racial Injustice, and Climate Justice
Donna M. Orange
7. The Thought of the Desert and the Desert of Thought
Michael Robert Kelly and Brian R. Clack
8. Cosmological Persons: Bringing Healing Down to Earth
Chandler D. Rogers
Part IV: Philosophies of the Earth
9. Faithful to the Earth: Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Heidegger
Joseph S. O'Leary
10. At the Threshold: Nature's Art of the Possible
Christopher Yates
11. Rethinking a Hospitality of Nature: Three Colloquies
David Storey
I: Earth Justice: Olufemi Taiwo, Matthias Fritsch, and Stanley Anozie
II: Nature in Asian Traditions: Graham Parkes, Marion Hourdequin, and Leah Kalmanson
III: Ecological Endgames: Michael E. Zimmerman and Ariel Salleh
Part V: Ecologies of the Earth
12. Environmental Epidemiology
Peter Clapes in conversation with Kate Burrows
13. Ecology, Economics, and Ethics
Stefano Zamagni
14. Ecology and Economy
Rowan Williams
15. Atmospheric Intervention
Lauren Guilmette
16. Listening to the Earth
Wolf and Lisa Wahpepah, in conversation with Michael Kearney
Biography
Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and author and editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. He is founding director of The Guestbook Project and has been engaged in developing a postnationalist philosophy of peace and empathy over several decades.
Peter Klapes is a graduate in Philosophy at Boston College. His main philosophical interests include psychoanalysis, the philosophy of literature, and contemporary continental philosophy and his writing has appeared in a number of international journals. Peter currently serves as Executive Manager of The Guestbook Project.
Urwa Hameed studied Political Science, International Relations, and Managing for Social Impact at Boston College. She has written on the role of women in politics in Pakistan, and is also a founder and President of the non-profit, Free Immigrations Services.
'A timely interdisciplinary response to our ecological emergency, this volume proposes a new paradigm shift: that we change course from exploiting the Earth we inhabit to hosting it as it hosts us.'
James L. Taylor, Director of the European Center for the Study of War and Peace
