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"What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thor...
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Fordham University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Groundworks : ecological issues in philosophy and theology
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"What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing ordinariness, as revealed by the evolutionary history we share with all life. The contributors to this volume ask us to consider whether the anxiety of unheimlichkeit, which in one form or another absorbed so much of twentieth-century philosophy, might reveal not our homelessness in the cosmo "Being in Creation asks about the role of humans in the more-than-human world from the perspective of human creatureliness, a perspective that accepts as a given human finitude and limitations, as well as responsibility toward other beings and toward the whole of which they are a part"-- |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 242 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780823265008 0823265005 9780823264995 0823264998 |
| Index Number: | BT695 |
| CLC: | B978 |
| Call Number: | B978/B422 |
| Contents: | Introduction: The human place in the natural world / Brian Treanor -- Creation, creativity and creatureliness : the wisdom of finite existence / Rowan Williams -- Rowan Williams and ecological rationality / Jarrod Longbons -- The art of creaturely life : a question of human propriety / Norman Wirzba -- Face of nature, gift of creation : thoughts toward a phenomenology of ktisis / Bruce Foltz -- 6. Creativity as call to care for creation? : John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- Creature discomforts: Levinas's interpretation of creation ex nihilo / Jeffrey Han |