Lexington Books
Pages: 260
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-1-4985-1765-2 • Hardback • July 2016 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
978-1-4985-1766-9 • Paperback • March 2018 • $54.99 • (£42.00)
978-1-4985-1767-6 • eBook • July 2016 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Sam Mickey is adjunct professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Francisco.
- Introduction: Renewing Existentialism
- Existentialist Legacies
- After God, After Nature
- Remaining Exposed
- Roundness
- Interlude
- After Humanism
- Looking Good
- Becoming Worldly
- Askesis: Shut Up and Train!
- Indications of an Axial Age
- Coda
With refreshing style and intellectual forcefulness, Sam Mickey widens the scope of existentialism and shows how it offers important resources to address our urgent ecological situation. Here existentialism becomes coexistentialism, and through it we glimpse a chance to strengthen our existence together on a fragile planet. Make this book part of your coexistence!
— Clayton Crockett, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Central Arkansas, USA
Is there an ecological style of engaging with things that aren't me, yet share and even overlap with my being in some sense? The paradoxes and absurdities of existence have only become heightened as we have entered an ecological age, and it's about time a writer committed to existentialism took up the challenge of working with those paradoxes. This book is up to speed with the ethical implications of our growing understanding of the symbiotic real and with what the author, quoting Björk, calls its necessary sense of 'emergency.' In trenchant and engaging prose, not to mention deep engagements with philosophy, Sam Mickey lays it out for you.
— Timothy Morton, author of "Dark Ecology" and "Hyperobjects"