For Love of Matter
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For Love of Matter

A Contemporary Panpsychism

  1. 223 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

For Love of Matter

A Contemporary Panpsychism

About this book

A bold and original work in ecocosmology and metaphysics.

In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests on the premise that the world is an inert backdrop to human presence rather than a communicative presence in its own right, one capable of dialogical congress with us. Mathews explores the transformative effects of a substitution of the latter, panpsychist premise for the former, materialist one. She suggests that to exist in a dialogical modality is to enter an expanded realm of eros in which the self and world are mutually kindled into a larger, more incandescent state of realization. She argues that any adequate philosophical response to the so-called "environmental crisis" cannot be encompassed within the minor discipline of environmental philosophy but must instead address the full range of existential questions.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. For Love of Matter: Editors
  3. For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Part 1. Invitation to Panpsychism
  9. Part 2. Defense of Panpsychism
  10. Part 3. A Practice of Encounter
  11. Appendix 1. A Survey of De-Realization in Modern Philosophy: From Idealism to Poststructuralism
  12. Appendix 2. Frans Hoogland on ‘Living Country’
  13. Notes
  14. Index
  15. Back Cover