{"product_id":"ecodeconstruction-9780823279500","title":"EcoDeconstruction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEco-Deconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (19302004), with its relentless interrogation of the anthropocentric metaphysics of presence, has already proven highly influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume, drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others, builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time.\u003cbr\u003eThe volume brings together fifteen prominent scholars, from a wide variety of related fields, including eco-phenomenology, eco-hermeneutics, new materialism, posthumanism, animal studies, vegetal philosophy, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, eco-criticism, earth art and aesthetics, and analytic environmental ethics. Overall, eco-deconstruction offers an account of differential relationality explored in a non-tota\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations for Works by Jacques Derrida\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes, and David Wood \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I. Diagnosing the Present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Eleventh Plague: Thinking Ecologically after Derrida \u003cbr\u003e  David Wood \u003cbr\u003e 2. Thinking after the World: Deconstruction and Last Things\u003cbr\u003e  Ted Toadvine \u003cbr\u003e 3. Scale as a Force of Deconstruction\u003cbr\u003e  Timothy Clark\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II. Ecologies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Posthuman Promise of the Earth\u003cbr\u003e  Philippe Lynes\u003cbr\u003e 5. Un\/limited Ecologies\u003cbr\u003e  Vicki Kirby \u003cbr\u003e 6. Ecology as Event\u003cbr\u003e  Michael Marder \u003cbr\u003e 7. Writing Home: Eco-choro-spectrography\u003cbr\u003e  John Llewelyn\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III. Nuclear and Other Biodegradabilitie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. E-phemera: Of Deconstruction, Biodegradability, and Nuclear War\u003cbr\u003e  Michael Naas \u003cbr\u003e 9. Troubling Time\/s and Ecologies of Nothingness: On the Im\/Possibilities of Living and Dying in the Void\u003cbr\u003e  Karen Barad \u003cbr\u003e 10. Responsibility and the Non(bio)degradable\u003cbr\u003e  Michael Peterson \u003cbr\u003e 11. Extinguishing Ability: How we Became Post-Extinction Persons\u003cbr\u003e  Claire Colebrook \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV. Environmental Ethics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. An Eco-Deconstructive Account of the Emergence of Normativity in “Nature”\u003cbr\u003e  Matthias Fritsch \u003cbr\u003e 13. Opening ethics onto the other shore of another heading\u003cbr\u003e  Dawne McCance \u003cbr\u003e 14. Wallace Stevens’s Birds, or, Derrida and Ecological Poetics\u003cbr\u003e  Cary Wolfe \u003cbr\u003e 15. Earth: Love It or Leave It\u003cbr\u003e  Kelly Oliver \u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406151000407,"sku":"9780823279500","price":102.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823279500.jpg?v=1730494703","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ecodeconstruction-9780823279500","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}