Hosting Earth

Facing the Climate Emergency

Richard Kearney (Boston College, USA), Peter Klapes (Boston College, USA), Urwa Hameed (Free Immigrations Services, USA)

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Routledge
26 September 2024

Psychotherapy; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Biodiversity; Global warming

Series: Psychology and the Other

"Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature by humans.

Featuring a dialogue with Mary Robinson (former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland), which addresses the current climate emergency, this book engages the question of ecological hospitality: what does it mean to be guests of the earth as well as hosts? It includes chapters by cutting-edge scholars in the philosophy of nature, as well as artists, scientists, psychologists, and theologians. The contributors discuss proposals for a new ""Poetics of the Earth,"" opening horizons beyond our perilous Anthropocene to a new Symbiocene of mutual collaboration between human and non-human species.

Focusing on the central role that the human psyche plays in answering our current ecological emergency, Hosting Earth is for anybody invested in the future of our planet and how psychological, psychoanalytic, and philosophical thought can reorient the current conversation about ecology."

Edited by: Richard Kearney (Boston College USA), Peter Klapes (Boston College, USA), Urwa Hameed (Free Immigrations Services, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032599489
ISBN 10: 1032599480
Series: Psychology and the Other
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 26 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and author and editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. He is founding director of The Guestbook Project for Narrative Hospitality and has been engaged in developing a postnationalist philosophy of peace and empathy over several decades. Peter Klapes is a graduate in Philosophy at Boston College. His main philosophical interests include psychoanalysis, the philosophy of literature, and contemporary continental philosophy and his writing has appeared in a number of international journals. Peter currently serves as Executive Manager of The Guestbook Project. Urwa Hameed studied Political Science, International Relations, and Managing for Social Impact at Boston College. She has written on the role of women in politics in Pakistan, and is also a founder and President of the non-profit, Free Immigrations Services.