Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores the placement of human beings, a “betweenness” that elicits the fact that human communication is the mediation between one’s intellectual, moral, and political experience. Aaron K. Kerr explores the relationship between nature and culture, exposing the obscurities caused by technology and economic dogmatism. A renewal of the mediatory role of human communication is juxtaposed to the immediacy of digital consumption. The author reveals that to redress ecological distress, there must be an equal awareness, sense of place, and regional responsibility for built environments which value nature. By situating philosophy and communication within the scientific consensus of the anthropocene, the author clearly indicates the necessary mediations between fact and value, science and religion, local and global, nature and culture. Scholars of philosophy, rhetoric, environmental ethics, and global bioethics will find this book of particular interest.
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mediation as Human Vocation
Chapter One: Mediation One: Admissions
Chapter Two: Mediation Two: Admonishments
Chapter Three: Mediation Three: Appeals
Chapter Four: Mediation Four: Aesthetics
Chapter Five: Meditation Five: Aspirations
Bibliography
Index
