1st Edition

Hosting Earth Facing the Climate Emergency

Edited By Richard Kearney, Peter Klapes, Urwa Hameed Copyright 2025
270 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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: Stanley Anozie, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Matthias Fritsch, David Storey

II: Nature in Asian Traditions: Leah Kalmanson, Graham Parkes, Marion Hourdequin, David Storey

III: Ecological Endgames: Ariel Salleh, Michael E. Zimmerman, David Storey

Part V: Ecologies of the Earth 

12. Environmental Epidemiology 

Peter Klapes 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 for Narrative Hospitality 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