For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism
Freya Mathews, "For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism"
2003 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0791458083 | PDF | 3,6 mb
2003 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0791458083 | PDF | 3,6 mb
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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