On the Ground

Van Horn O'neil

Description

A bold, theoretical, and pragmatic book that looks to soil as a symbol for constructive possibilities for hope and planetary political action in the Anthropocene.Climate change is here. Its ravaging effects will upend our interconnected ecosystems, and yet those effects will play out disproportionately among the planet's nearly 8 billion human inhabitants. On the Ground explores how one might account for the many paradoxical tensions posed by the Anthropocene: tensions between planetarity and particularity, connectivity and contextuality, entanglement and exclusion. Using the philosophical and theological idea of "ground," Van Horn argues that ground-when read as earth-ground, as soil-offers a symbol for conceiving of the effects of climate change as collective and yet located, as communal and yet differential. In so doing, he offers critical interventions on theorizations of hope and political action amid the crises of climate change.Drawing on soil science, theopoetics, feminist ethics, poststructuralism, process philosophy, and more, On the Ground asks: In the face of global climate catastrophe, how might one theorize this calamitous experience as shared and yet particular, as interconnected and yet contextual? Might there be a way to conceptualize our interconnected experiences without erasing critical constitutive differences, particularly of social and ecological location? How might these conceptual interventions catalyze pluralistic, anti-racist planetary politics amid the Anthropocene? In short, the book addresses these queries: What philosophical and theological concepts can soil create? How might soil inspire and help re-imagine forms of planetary politics in the midst of climate change? On the Ground thus roots us in a robust theoretical symbol in the hopes of producing and proliferating intersectional responses to climate change.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Ethics in religion
• Philosophy of religion
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 05 décembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781531505585
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

O N TH E G R O U N D

On the Ground TE RRE STRI A L TH E O P O ETI C S A N D P L A N ETA RY P O LITI C S

O’neî Van Horn

Fordham University Press New York 2024

Çô©2024fôàÛéŝéŝŝ

Ā ŝ éŝéé. ô à ô ŝ ûçàô à é éôûçé, ŝôé  à ééà ŝŝé, ô àŝé  à ô ô  à éàŝ—ééçôç, éçàçà, ôôçô, éçô, ô à ôé—éçé ô é qûôàôŝ  é ééŝ, ôû é ô éŝŝô ô é ûŝé.

éé é, éçé ô “é ô à é Eà” ôThe Art of the Commonpace: The Agrarîan Essays. Çô © 2002  éé é. Réé  é éŝŝô ô é éŝŝôŝ Çô à, Ç ô éà ô Çôûéô éŝŝ, çôûéôéŝŝ.çô.

éŝŝ àô, éçé ô “Āôçàô ô à Sà àé” ôWork & Days. Çô © 2016  éŝŝ àô. Réé  é éŝŝô ô éŝŝ àô.

jé Ô’é, éçé ôHow to Do Nothîng: Resîstîng the Attentîon Economy.Çô © 2018  jé Ô’é. Réé  é éŝŝô ô Méé Hôûŝé ûŝ.

fôà Ûéŝ éŝŝ àŝ ô éŝôŝ ô é éŝŝéçé ô àççûàç ô ÛRŝ ô ééà ô -à îéé éŝéŝ ééé ô  ŝ ûçàô à ôéŝ ô ûààéé à à çôé ô ŝûç éŝéŝ ŝ, ô  éà, àççûàé ô àôàé.

fôà Ûéŝ éŝŝ àŝô ûŝéŝ ŝ ôôŝ  à àé ô ééçôç ôàŝ. Sôé çôé à àéàŝ   à ô é àààé  ééçôç ôôŝ.

Vŝ ûŝ ôé à .ôàéŝŝ.çô.

à ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--ûçàô àà àààé ôé à ŝ://çààô.ôç.ô.

é  é Ûé Sàéŝ ô Āéçà 26 25 24 5 4 3 2 1 fŝ éô

Contents

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îôûçô 1

îéûé:The Dîfferences of Our Soîs, the Soîs of Our Dîfferences 15

Pantîng: ôû îŝ ô fôûàô 18

îéûé:Poetîcs at the Edge 42

Rootîng: ééŝà éôôéçŝ ô à ô é àéà 44

îéûé:Mountaîntop Remova and the Impossîbîîty of Hope 62

Sproutîng: à Hôé  Ûéçàé éŝ 67

îéûé:Seeds and the Subversîve Act of Sowîng 96

Boomîng: (é)Çôôŝôà àéà ôçŝ 101

Çôçûŝô

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Acknowledgments 129

Notes 131

Bibliography 167

ïndex 179

û  ô î éé à ôééŝŝ— é, à éà ûà ééô— Hééîôàôààŝôôûŝ—

—Tess Taylor

Introduction

é ŝô ŝ é éà çôéçô ô éŝ, é ŝôûçé à éŝàô ô à. î ŝ é éàé à éŝôé à éŝûéçô,  ç ŝéàŝé àŝŝéŝ ô éà, àé ô ôû, éà ô é. ôû ôé çàé ô  é çà àé ô çôû, éçàûŝé ôû ôé çàé ô  é çà àé ô é. —Wendell Berry

A Beginning, On Beginnings

Hô ôéŝ ôé é ŝôé à’ŝ àéà  ôçéŝŝ, àéà éû? Hô ôéŝ ôé à à é  ŝûç à à àŝ ô ô éàŝé à àéŝ à é- even possîbe? î éŝ ééénotô ôéé, ôex nîhîo, û ô àçûà àçéŝ, ô çôéûà àçéŝ, é ŝ  éàŝé ô ôé à é ôû éàŝ àŝ ôûŝ? éàŝ éé ŝ ô ôé à à  àô,  éçô ôé ô ôé-éé éçôŝ, éé àŝ ôé àéŝ ô à é àçûàéŝ. ŝ à é é ô ô à àô: é ôçàô ô à ûà à é à ô ŝàçé ô àé  à ô à ŝ éé  Lû. ô ûé  ô û ô ôçé, ôé û ô —thatŝ é àŝ ô à ôô é. û ŝ ôé ûŝ éé, éàŝ ààôçà,  ô éç- ôŝ, ûçôé ô à ç éàé ŝûç à éandé ôŝŝ- éŝ à  ŝôû ô ô ôŝé ôûŝ. éŝ, ûà, ôé ôà à àçà. à’ŝ ôé, ééé  à é ŝ ô ô à “àŝ” û àŝô à “àŝ ô”—ôéçôŝé ôéàéŝ, ûéàzé

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