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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 an

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 1/26/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032599496
      978-1032599496
      ISBN-10 1032599499
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 an

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