Elemental difference and the climate of the body

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

"The polis, the philosophical concept according to which there is one complete human form, is to blame for political and ecological crisis. The polis as a philosophical tradition shares the current complex shape of climate change. A certain perfect body figures the denial of matter of the polis...

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Main Author: Parker, Emily (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:Studies in feminist philosophy.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Political aspects.
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on.
Human body (Philosophy)
Difference (Philosophy)
Equality > Philosophy.
Racism.
Feminist theory.
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on
Equality > Philosophy
Feminist theory
Human ecology > Political aspects
Racism
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Table of 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.

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