Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds

Vulnerability and Care of the Earth

Didier Zúñiga (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4839-1 (ISBN)

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This book aims to overcome the disconnect between human and ecological concerns in political theory and political philosophy.

In Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds, Didier Zúñiga examines the possibility for dialogue and mutual understanding in human and more-than-human worlds. The book responds to the need to find more democratic ways of listening to, giving voice to, and caring for the variety of beings that inhabit the earth.

Drawing on ecology and sustainability in democratic theory, Zúñiga demonstrates the transformative potential of a relational ethics that is not only concerned with human animals, but also with the multiplicity of beings on earth, and the relationships in which they are enmeshed. The book offers ways of cultivating and fostering the kinds of relations that are needed to maintain human and more-than-human diversity in order for life to persist. It also calls attention to the quality of the relationships that are needed for life to flourish, advancing our understanding of the diversity of pluralism. Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds ultimately presses us to question our own condition of human animality so that we may reconsider the relations we entertain with one another and with more-than-human forms of life on earth.

Didier Zúñiga is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Towards a Relational Ethics with Nature

1. Bound by Reasonableness

2. Vulnerability and the Need for Care

3. To Think and Act Ecologically: The Environment, Human Animality, Nature

4. What Vulnerability Entails: Sustainability and the Limits of Political Pluralism

5. Nature’s Relations: Ontology, Vulnerability, Agency

6. The Democracy of the Neglected: Mutual Understanding and Sustainability in a World of Many Worlds

Conclusion: Retrieving Nature

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2022
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	330 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-4875-4839-7 / 1487548397
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-4839-1 / 9781487548391
Zustand	Neuware