
Exploring Earthiness
The Reality and Perception of Being Human Today
Anne Primavesi(Author)
Lutterworth Press
Published on 28. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-0-7188-9339-2 (ISBN)
Description
If we see ourselves as Earth, rather than Earth as existing for us, our perspective is transformed. A variety of religious, philosophical, cultural, and political self-perceptions that dominate our sense of human identity are deeply challenged by this shift in perspective. John Locke's doctrine of Earth as human 'property' has been central to current presuppositions about our selves: justified on the grounds of our possessing unique, divinely bestowed, rational abilities. But today, the effects of that doctrine on Earth's resource base and on its other-than-human creatures directly challenge such assumptions. At the same time contemporary scientific findings about the evolution of Earthly life demonstrate that while we belong to Earth and nowhere else, Earth does not belong to us. Exploring this role reversal raises fundamental questions about current theological, philosophical, scientific, and economic presuppositions that underpin the 'business as usual' viewpoint and human-centered aims of contemporary policies and lifestyles. It takes us beyond hierarchical Christian and philosophical doctrines toward a deeper, Earth-focused and peace-based understanding of what it means to be human today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7188-9339-2 (9780718893392)
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Anne Primavesi is presently a Fellow of the Westar Institute and Jesus Seminar, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, and has authored 'Sacred Gaia' (2000); 'Gaia's Gift' (2003); 'Making God Laugh' (2004); 'Gaia and Climate Change' (2009); and 'Cultivating Unity within the Biodiversity of God' (2011).
Content
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
1 Resourceful Earth
2 Disdained Earth
3 Appropriated Earth
4 Reformed Earth
5 Classical Earth
6 Colonized Earth
7 Monetized Earth
8 Devalued Earth
9 Marketized Earth
10 Peaceable Earth
11 One Earth
12 Living Earth
Afterword
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Index
Foreword
Preface
1 Resourceful Earth
2 Disdained Earth
3 Appropriated Earth
4 Reformed Earth
5 Classical Earth
6 Colonized Earth
7 Monetized Earth
8 Devalued Earth
9 Marketized Earth
10 Peaceable Earth
11 One Earth
12 Living Earth
Afterword
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Index