Author : Freya Mathews
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 967/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reinhabiting Reality by : Freya Mathews
Download or read book Reinhabiting Reality written by Freya Mathews. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, also published by SUNY Press, Freya Mathews argues that replacing the materialist premise of modern civilization with a panpsychist one transforms the entire fabric of culture in profound ways. She claims that the environmental crisis is a symptom of deeper issues facing modern civilization arising from the loss of the very meaning of culture. To come to grips with this crisis requires a change in the metaphysical premise of modernity deeper than any as yet envisaged even by the radical ecology movement. This is a change with profound implications for the full range of existential questions and not merely for questions regarding our relationship with "nature."