Reoccupy Earth

Habit rules our lives. While many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell ecological disaster. Beyond consumerism, other ways of living are clearly possible. Reoccupy Earth shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling.

Introduction: Reinhabiting the Earth 1
Part I: Econvergences
1 On the Way to Econstruction 29
2 The Idea of Ecophenomenology 50
3 Ecological Imagination: A Whiteheadian Exercise in Temporal Phronesis 65
4 The Eleventh Plague: Thinking Ecologically after Derrida 80
Part II: Experiential Pathways
5 Things at the Edge of the World 105
6 Reversals and Transformations 121
7 Touched by Touching: Toward a Carnal Hermeneutics 142
Part III: Reoccupy Earth
8 My Place in the Sun 155
9 On Being Haunted by the Future 175
10 Beyond Narcissistic Humanism: Or, in the Face of Anthropogenic
Climate Change, Is There a Case for Voluntary Human Extinction? 202
Acknowledgments 219
Notes 221
Index 251