Description
Book SynopsisHosting 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
