Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question

The Immanence of Life

Enrique Leff (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

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English

Routledge
22 December 2023

Philosophy; Social & political philosophy; History of ideas; Pollution & threats to the environment

Series: Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism

This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the modern environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of understanding Life, resulting from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a metaphysics that privileges ontological thinking on the ""question of being"" over the environmental question and the concern for the conditions of life.

Exploring the work of the three principal thinkers of the Lebensphilosophie— Bergson, Dilthey, and Husserl—it charts the itinerary of Heidegger’s work and exposes its conflicts with the work of Marx, Plessner, Haar, and Derrida. A critical argument against the colonization of the world by Eurocentric reason and for the deconstruction of Capital, Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question draws on Latin American environmental thought to re-think the conditions for life on Earth.

It will therefore appeal to scholars of philosophy, political theory, and political sociology with interests in environmental philosophy, political ecology, and socioeconomic transformation.

By: Enrique Leff (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 734g
ISBN: 9781032606545
ISBN 10: 1032606541
Series: Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 22 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Prolegomena 2. Being/Life: Heidegger in Face of the Environmental Question 3. The Phenomenology of Life and the Facticity of Human Existence 4. The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, the Ontological Turn and the Order of Life 5. The Environmental Question and the Paths of Thinking: the History of Being and the Immanence of Life

Enrique Leff is Emeritus Professor in the Institute for Social Research and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Emeritus Researcher at the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology, Mexico. He was the former Coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Environment Program. He is the author of Political Ecology: Deconstructing Capital and Territorializing Life (2021) and Green Production: Towards an Environmental Rationality (1995).