Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question

<p>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 <i>Logos </i>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.</p><p>Exploring the work of the three principal thinkers of the <i>Lebensphilosophie</i>— 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 <i>Heidegger in the Face of the Environmental Question </i>draws on Latin American environmental thought to re-think the conditions for life on Earth.</p><p>It will therefore appeal to scholars of philosophy political theory and political sociology with interests in environmental philosophy political ecology and socioeconomic transformation. </p>