The Incarnality of Being: The Earth, Animals, And the Body in Heidegger's Thought (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy And Ethics)

A groundbreaking exploration of Heidegger and embodiment, from which a radical ethical perspective emerges. The Incarnality of Being......Page 2 Contents......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 1. The Materiality of the World......Page 16 WORK, EXCHANGE, AND TECHNOLOGY......Page 17 PROBLEMS ARISING FROM HAVING A BODY—ADDICTION......Page 31 2. The Erotic, Sexuality, and Diversity......Page 48 SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION......Page 50 SEXUALITY AND THE OTHER......Page 54 EROS, IMAGINATION, AND THE PORNOGRAPHIC......Page 71 3. Ethos, Embodiment,and Future Generations......Page 80 THE INCARNATEDNESS OF ETHICAL ACTION......Page 81 THE ONES TO COME......Page 94 4. Of Earth and Animals......Page 102 OF HABITAT AND DWELLING......Page 103 WHO SPEAKS FOR THE ANIMALS?......Page 114 5. The Body Politic:Terrestrial or Social?......Page 128 THE POLYVALENCY OF FREEDOM......Page 129 THE POLITICAL BODY......Page 145 6. The Return to the Earthand the Idiom of the Body......Page 160 REVISITING THE TURNING......Page 161 TECHNOLOGY AND THE ILLUSION OFCONTROLLING THE EARTH AND THE BODY......Page 175 REVISITING THE SELF......Page 188 Notes......Page 196 C......Page 218 F......Page 219 L......Page 220 P......Page 221 T......Page 222 Z......Page 223 The Incarnality of Being addresses Martin Heidegger's tendency to neglect the problem of the body, an omission that is further reflected in the field of Heidegger scholarship. By addressing the corporeal dimension of human existence, author Frank Schalow uncovers Heidegger's concern for the materiality of the world. This allows for the ecological implications of Heidegger's thought to emerge, specifically, the kinship between humans and animals and the mutual interest each has for preserving the environment and the earth. By advancing the theme of the "incarnality of being," Schalow brings Heidegger's thinking to bear on various provocative questions concerning contemporary philosophy: sexuality, the intersection of human and animal life, the precarious future of the earth we inhabit, and the significance that reclaiming our embodiment has upon ethics and politics. Book jacket The materiality of the world The erotic, sexuality, and diversity Ethos, embodiment, and future generations Of earth and animals The body-politic : terrestrial or social? The re-turn to the earth and the idiom of the body.