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Record Nr.

UNINA9910767579503321

Autore

Moser Keith A.

Titolo

Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era / / by Keith Moser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030961299

9783030961282

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages)

Collana

Sustainable Development Goals Series, , 2523-3092

Disciplina

570.14

809.9336

Soggetti

Ecocriticism

European literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Human ecology - History

Continental Philosophy

European Literature

Contemporary Literature

Environmental History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Michel Serres’s Biosemiotic Thought: Writing the “Immense Rhapsody” or “Great Story” of Life -- Chapter 2: Edgar Morin’s Complex, “Ecologized” Thought: The Ubiquity of “Informational Capital” on the Battlefield of Life in the COVID-19 Era -- Chapter 3: The Biosemiosic Gaze of the “Wholly Other” and the Philosophical Exercise of “Limitrophy” in Jacques Derrida’s Posthumous Philosophy -- Chapter 4: Michel Onfray’s Biosemiotic, Materialistic, and Post-Monotheistic Reworking of Human and Other-Than-Human Semiosis -- Chapter 5: Dominique Lestel’s Pioneering Biosemiotic Vision of “The Enchanted Space of Trans-Specific Communication” Within Hybrid Societies.

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19



Era is focused on the fields of biosemiotics, linguistics, ecocriticism, and environmental ethics. Closely aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 13.1, Keith Moser’s study aims to strengthen resilience to climate-related hazards by drawing on ecological theories developed by French philosophers in conversation with biosemiotic principles. Not only does the novel theoretical framework offered by biosemiotic interpretations of the universe and our place in it represent an indispensable conceptual tool for understanding the unprecedented medical challenges at the dawn of a new millennium, but it also beckons us to think harder about the environmental crisis that threatens the continued existence of all sentient beings who call the biosphere home. This book also highlights the richness, diversity, and utility of the ecological theories developed by the French philosophers Michel Serres, Edgar Morin, Jacques Derrida, Dominique Lestel, and Michel Onfray in addition to how they engage with biosemiotic principles. Taken together, the book probes the scientific, linguistic, philosophical, and ethical implications of biosemiotic theories in a post-pandemic world from an environmental and medical perspective.