Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology

Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, Series Editors

Connecting areas of philosophical, theological, and ecological concern, Groundworks seeks to provide a home for books addressing some of the most profound issues of our day. It would be easy to attribute the ecological crises that confront us to unrestricted growth, unsustainable consumption, or technological overreach. At the root of them all, however, is the question of how human beings belong in and to the world. Groundworks is animated by the belief that philosophy, theology, and ecology each have something distinctive to say about this belonging, that they also have much to say to one another, and that the intersections among them demarcate a territory sorely in need of exploration.

Series Advisory Board: Series Board: Richard Kearney (Boston College), Harvey Jacobs (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Catherine Keller (Drew University), Mark Wallace (Swarthmore College), Norman Wirzba (Duke Divinity School), David Wood (Vanderbilt University)

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Living with Tiny Aliens

Adam Pryor

Living with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.

ISBN: 9780823287710

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When God Was a Bird

Mark I. Wallace

2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNERIn a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world’s religions played in ameliorating—or causing—the crisis we now face? Religion in general,...

ISBN: 9780823281312

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Reoccupy Earth

David Wood

Habit rules our lives. While many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell ecological disaster. Beyond consumerism, other ways of living are clearly possible. Reoccupy Earth shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling.

ISBN: 9780823283538

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Inner Animalities

Eric Daryl Meyer

Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth’s creatures—our freedom, our self-awareness, our language,...

ISBN: 9780823280155

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Eco-Deconstruction

Philippe Lynes, David Wood, Karen Barad, Timothy Clark, Claire Colebrook, Vicki Kirby, John Llewelyn, Philippe Lynes, Michael Marder, Dawne McCance, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Michael Peterson, Ted Toadvine, Cary Wolfe, David Wood

Edited by Philippe Lynes and David Wood

Contributor(s): Karen Barad, Timothy Clark, Claire Colebrook, Vicki Kirby, John Llewelyn, Philippe Lynes, Michael Marder, Dawne McCance, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Michael Peterson, Ted Toadvine, Cary Wolfe and David Wood

Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida...

ISBN: 9780823279517

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Wilderness in America

Henry Bugbee, David W. Rodick

Henry Bugbee

Edited by David W. Rodick

The purpose of this book is to remove the philosophical writings of Henry Bugbee from relative obscurity, making them more accessible to the wider public. Beginning with an introductory account of Bugbee’s “experiential naturalism,” the development of his thought is traced from his student writings in Part One to some select published writings in Part Two, followed by heretofore unpublished writings in Part Three. Part Four consists of an in-depth interview conducted during the twilight years of his life. The book concludes with a rich collection of appendices that are intended to shed light upon the unique person Bugbee in fact was. The end-in-view throughout has been to allow Bugbee the opportunity to speak in his own words and, when appropriate, through the words of others: those both familiar with the man as well as his philosophy.

ISBN: 9780823275366

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The Logos of the Living World

Louise Westling

This book puts Merleau-Ponty's philosophy into dialogue with literature, evolutionary biology, and animal studies to argue for evolutionary continuity between human cultural and linguistic behaviors and the semiotic activities of other animals. It restores our species to its place within the co-evolved animal community now threatened by environmental change.

ISBN: 9780823255665

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Environmental Aesthetics

Martin Drenthen, Jozef Keulartz

Martin Drenthen and Jozef Keulartz

Environmental aesthetics today harbours a wide range of perspectives, and crosses several commonly recognized divides: between analytic and continental philosophy, Eastern and Western traditions, universalizing and historicizing approaches, and theoretical and practical concerns. This volume sets out to show how these perspectives can be brought into conversation with one another.

ISBN: 9780823254507

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The Noetics of Nature

Bruce V. Foltz

Both philosophical and theological texts of antiquity argued that a “noetic” or contemplative understanding of nature is higher than the discursive rationality oriented toward domination and control. Studying poets, mystics, and nature writers, this book argues that restoring a sacred view of nature is urgently needed in Western thought.

ISBN: 9780823254651

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Interpreting Nature

Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, David Utsler

Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen and David Utsler

Edited by Forrest Clingerman

This collection of essays examines the various intersections between philosophical hermeneutics and environmental philosophy. Adopting a broad and inclusive understanding of our relation with the environment, it investigates a number of important topics for contemporary environmental thought, including the self, history, ethics, culture, and narrative.

ISBN: 9780823254262

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Being-in-Creation

Brian Treanor, Bruce Ellis Benson, Norman Wirzba

Bruce Ellis Benson and Norman Wirzba

Edited by Brian Treanor

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.

ISBN: 9780823265008

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Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology

Living with Tiny Aliens

When God Was a Bird

Reoccupy Earth

Inner Animalities

Eco-Deconstruction

Wilderness in America

The Logos of the Living World

Environmental Aesthetics

The Noetics of Nature

Interpreting Nature

Being-in-Creation

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