Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture

By Freya Mathews

Book Overview

Argues that the environmental crisis is symptomatic of much deeper crises in modern civilization.

In this sequel to For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, also published by SUNY Press, Freya Mathews argues that replacing the materialist premise of modern civilization with a panpsychist one transforms the entire fabric of culture in profound ways. She claims that the environmental crisis is a symptom of deeper issues facing modern civilization arising from the loss of the very meaning of culture. To come to grips with this crisis requires a change in the metaphysical premise of modernity deeper than any as yet envisaged even by the radical ecology movement. This is a change with profound implications for the full range of existential questions and not merely for questions regarding our relationship with "nature."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791463087
• ISBN13: 9780791463086
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher