Reoccupy Earth : Notes toward an Other Beginning / / David Wood

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960447003321
• Autore: Wood David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 9780823286249; 082328624X; 9780823283569; 0823283569; 9780823283552; 0823283550
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 pages)
• Collana: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetti: Consumption (Economics) - Environmental aspects; Ecotheology; Human ecology; Philosophy of nature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Reinhabiting the earth -- Chapter 1. On the way to econstruction -- Chapter 2. The idea of ecophenomenology -- Chapter 3. Ecological imagination: a whiteheadian exercise in temporal phronesis -- Chapter 4. The eleventh plague: thinking ecologically after Derrida -- Chapter 5. Things at the edge of the world -- Chapter 6. Reversals and transformations -- Chapter 7. Touched by touching: toward a carnal hermeneutics -- Chapter 8. My place in the sun -- Chapter 9. On being haunted by the future -- Chapter 10. Beyond narcissistic humanism: or, in the face of anthropogenic climate change, is there a case for voluntary human extinction? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits are integral to narratives of the good life, to social norms and ; expectations, as well as to economic reality. Such shared shapes are vital. Yet while many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell disaster. Beyond consumerism, other forms of life and patterns of dwelling are clearly possible. But how can we get there from here? Who precisely is the ‘we’ that our habits have created, and who else might we be? Philosophy is about emancipation—from illusions, myths, and oppression. In Reoccupy Earth, the noted philosopher David Wood 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. Sharing the earth, as we do, raises fundamental questions about space and time, place and history, territory and embodiment—questions that philosophy cannot directly answer but can help us to frame and to work out for ourselves. Deconstruction exposes all manner of exclusion, violence to the other, and silent subordination. Phenomenology and Whitehead’s process philosophy offer further resources for an ecological imagination. Bringing an uncommon lucidity, directness, and even practicality to sophisticated philosophical questions, Wood plots experiential pathways that disrupt our habitual existence and challenge our everyday complacency. In walking us through a range of reversals, transformations, and estrangements that thinking ecologically demands of us, Wood shows how living responsibly with the earth means affirming the ways in which we are vulnerable, receptive, and dependent, and the need for solidarity all round. If we take seriously values like truth, justice, and compassion we must be willing to contemplate that the threat we pose to the earth might demand our own species’ demise. Yet we have the capacity to live responsibly. In an unfashionable but spirited defense of an enlightened anthropocentrism, Wood argues that to deserve the privileges of Reason we must demonstrably deploy it through collective sustainable agency. Only in this way can we reinhabit the earth.

Palimpsests and Related Phenomena Across Languages and Cultures

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911011317403321
• Autore: Gippert Jost
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2024; ©2025
• ISBN: 9783111552170; 3111552179
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (582 pages)
• Collana: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; ; v.42
• Altri autori (Persone): MaksimczukJosé; SargsyanHasmik
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and Related Phenomena from a Cross-cultural Perspective -- Written Sources on the Use of Reagents in the Palimpsests Veronenses XV, XL, and LXII: Towards an Archaeology of Destruction -- Palimpsest Manuscripts in the National Library of Greece, with a Focus on EBE 192 -- Some Reflections on Selected Leaves of the Palimpsest Manuscript Athos, Konstamonitou 99 -- The Trials and Tribulations of a Palimpsest Reader -- Beyond the Invisible: Some Aspects of Syriac Palimpsests -- A Georgian Palimpsest Folio in an Athonite Greek Manuscript -- An Ancient Armenian Text of the Gospel of John in a Graz Palimpsest: Preliminary Observations -- Palimpsests from the Caucasus: Two Case Studies -- The Oldest Georgian Witness of the Martyrdom of St Febronia -- New Witnesses of the Jerusalem-Rite Lectionary: Georgian Palimpsests Ivir. georg. 47 and Ivir. georg. 59 -- Linguistic Divergence in Armenian Bible and Lectionary Palimpsests -- Uncovering Lost Armenian Texts: Schøyen Collection MS 575 and the Armenian Translation of John Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Psalms -- A Survey of the Palimpsests among the Slavic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai -- Ethiopic Palimpsests -- Personal Qur’ans in Early Islam: A Case of Palimpsesting and Training -- Palimpsesting or Paper Reuse in Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa -- Palimpsests on Purpose: Rethinking ; Intentional Erasure and Layers in Manuscript Culture -- Inpainting with Generative AI: A Significant Step towards Automatically Deciphering Palimpsests -- Contributors -- Indexes
• Sommario/riassunto: In the traditional view of European scholarship, palimpsests are parchment manuscripts from Antiquity or the Middle Ages whose original content has been erased, scraped away, or washed off and later overwritten with new content. This removed content is usually the focus of research. The present volume, which brings together eighteen papers prepared for two workshops at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures in Hamburg in 2021 and 2023, takes a broader perspective by going far beyond the borders of classical philology into the much less studied manuscript cultures of the Christian East (Aramaic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Georgian, Slavonic, Syriac), the Islamic world of Asia and Africa (Arabic), and East Asia (Japanese). It thematizes writing supports other than parchment that were suitable for palimpsesting; different practices applied in erasing and overwriting handwritten content and the various reasons for such undertakings; and the different methods that researchers can employ to reveal the content of the removed layers and the results that these methods can yield.; Palimpsests are manuscripts whose original content has been erased, scraped away, washed off and later overwritten. In their lower layers, they often contain unique versions of texts – including those otherwise lost – from Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume addresses palimpsesting across languages, cultures, and times, as well as up-to-date research and imaging practices applied to them and results achieved in reconstituting removed layers.