For the Earth That Has Never Been
Keywords:
Earth, geophilosophy, logos, sophia, metaphysics, self-consciousness, articulation, identity, definition, morality
Abstract
In this article, I advance four main theses:
1) that there has never been a philosophy of the earth;
2) that the earth has never been itself;
3) that the earth has never been defined; and
4) that the earth has never been moral.
I suggest that a geophilosophy worthy of the name would need to respect these negative qualities of the earth’s non-identity, non- or indefiniteness, and a-morality.
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Hegel, G. W. F. (2004). Philosophy of Nature: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, Part II. Trans. A. V. Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hegel, G. W. F. (2010). Science of Logic: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part I. Trans. and Ed. Klaus Brinkmann and Daniel O. Dahlstrom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Heidegger, Martin (1993). “The Origin of the Work of Art.” In Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell: 139–212. San Francisco: HarperCollins.
Hesiod (2006). Theogony, Works & Days, Testimonia. Trans. Glenn Most. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Latour, Bruno (1993). We Have Never Been Modern. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Latour, Bruno (2017). Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime. Trans. Catherine Porter. London: Polity.
Losev, Aleksey (2016). Dialektika mifa [Dialectic of myth]. St. Petersburg: Azbuka.
Marx, Karl (1970). Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Trans. Joseph O’Malley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Marx Karl, and Friedrich Engels (2002). The Communist Manifesto. London: Penguin Books.
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Pope Francis (2015). Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis on the Care of Our Common Home. The Vatican.
Schmitt, Carl (2003). The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum. Trans. Gary L. Ulmen. New York: Telos Press.
Serres, Michel (2015). Times of Crisis. Trans. Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon. London: Bloomsbury.
Published
2020-07-25
How to Cite
Marder, M. (2020). For the Earth That Has Never Been. Stasis, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2020-9-1-60-75
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