description: In For Love of Matter Freya Mathews challenges basic assumptions of Western science, modern philosophy, and environmental philosophy, arguing that the environmental crisis is a symptom of a larger, metaphysical crisis. Western science rests on the premise that the world is an inert backdrop to human presence rather than a communicative presence in its own right, one capable of dialogical congress with us. Mathews explores the transformative effects of a substitution of the latter, panpsychist premise for the former, materialist one. She suggests that to exist in a dialogical modality is to enter an expanded realm of eros in which the self and world are mutually kindled into a larger, more incandescent state of realization. She argues that any adequate philosophical response to the so-called environmental crisis cannot be encompassed within the minor discipline of environmental philosophy but must instead address the full range of existential questions.
language: English
title: For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)
titlecomplete: For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics) (Suny Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 21
series: SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
publisher: State University of New York Press