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Intro
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Title Page
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: A pluralization of Reason to make ecological reasoning(s) thinkable
Methodical Reflections
(a) Monorationalism and pluralization of reasons
(b) Construction and affirmation
(c) Usefulness and productivity
(d) Strategic dualisms
(e) Working definitions: Ecological Reason vs. Classical Reason
(f) Ecology without Nature
(g) Anthropocene? Homogenocene? Capitalocene? Androcene? Occidentalocene?
(h) Writing as mixing voices
Chapter 2: Nietzsche as an early case example of a thinker of ecological reason(s)
Methodical remarks
(a) Nietzsche's ecological critique of Reason
(b) Affirmative critique
(c) Another reason for the Anthropocene?
(d) Ecological Reason, a first draft
(e) A more nuanced, sober outlook on ecological reason(ing)s
Excursion 1: Question of style: argumentative rigor, logical stringency, poetic subtlety, aphoristic intuition
Part II: Problems and Critiques
Introduction
Chapter 3: Critiques of reason
(A) Language- and Media-philosophical critiques
(A) Early modern reflections of the effects of language on our reasoning
(b) Reading disharmonies into the world (Nietzsche)
(c) Mistaking the frame for Nature (Wittgenstein)
(d) What language breeds . . . (De Kerckhove)
(e) Modernity + text
(f) Ways out of Modernity and its problematic entanglement with text
(B) (Eco-)Feminist Critiques
(a) Language and the feminine (Cixous + Woolf)
(b) Inside the phallogos (Wolf + Irigaray)
(c) Modernity and the death of Nature (Merchant + Federici)
(d) Eco-Feminism
(e) Queering Eco-Feminism
Excursion 2: Isms
C) Bodily and aesthetic critique
a) The body entering the stage
b) Note on the body-mind-dualism
c) Fear of the senses (and somatophobia)
d) Order of the senses
e) Smells like danger
D) Political and post-imperial critique of Reason
a) Political critique (Marx + Engels)
b) Critical theory (Adorno + Horkheimer)
c) Politics of nature
d) Normalization + inscription (Foucault, Taylan, Fressoz)
e) Machine fetishism (Hornborg)
f) Post-colonial critique (Spivak + Acheraïou)
g) Provincializing and pluralizing Reason (Chakrabarty)
Excursion 3: Unreason
Presentiment I: First notes on an affirmation of ecological reason(s)
a) What is (=makes) classical Reason?
b) Speculations on ecological reasonings to come
Chapter 4: How does critique matter?
(a) The limits of critique
(b) Critique and modernity
(c) The dangers of critique
(d) How to criticize
Excursion 4: Post-Truth?
Part III: Emergence and Pluralization
Chapter 5: Re-examining classics
Making do in the ruins of Reason
(A) Phaedrus
a) Contradictions put in place to portray a certain ecology of thought
b) Expelling the Poetry we are devoted to
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: A pluralization of Reason to make ecological reasoning(s) thinkable
Methodical Reflections
(a) Monorationalism and pluralization of reasons
(b) Construction and affirmation
(c) Usefulness and productivity
(d) Strategic dualisms
(e) Working definitions: Ecological Reason vs. Classical Reason
(f) Ecology without Nature
(g) Anthropocene? Homogenocene? Capitalocene? Androcene? Occidentalocene?
(h) Writing as mixing voices
Chapter 2: Nietzsche as an early case example of a thinker of ecological reason(s)
Methodical remarks
(a) Nietzsche's ecological critique of Reason
(b) Affirmative critique
(c) Another reason for the Anthropocene?
(d) Ecological Reason, a first draft
(e) A more nuanced, sober outlook on ecological reason(ing)s
Excursion 1: Question of style: argumentative rigor, logical stringency, poetic subtlety, aphoristic intuition
Part II: Problems and Critiques
Introduction
Chapter 3: Critiques of reason
(A) Language- and Media-philosophical critiques
(A) Early modern reflections of the effects of language on our reasoning
(b) Reading disharmonies into the world (Nietzsche)
(c) Mistaking the frame for Nature (Wittgenstein)
(d) What language breeds . . . (De Kerckhove)
(e) Modernity + text
(f) Ways out of Modernity and its problematic entanglement with text
(B) (Eco-)Feminist Critiques
(a) Language and the feminine (Cixous + Woolf)
(b) Inside the phallogos (Wolf + Irigaray)
(c) Modernity and the death of Nature (Merchant + Federici)
(d) Eco-Feminism
(e) Queering Eco-Feminism
Excursion 2: Isms
C) Bodily and aesthetic critique
a) The body entering the stage
b) Note on the body-mind-dualism
c) Fear of the senses (and somatophobia)
d) Order of the senses
e) Smells like danger
D) Political and post-imperial critique of Reason
a) Political critique (Marx + Engels)
b) Critical theory (Adorno + Horkheimer)
c) Politics of nature
d) Normalization + inscription (Foucault, Taylan, Fressoz)
e) Machine fetishism (Hornborg)
f) Post-colonial critique (Spivak + Acheraïou)
g) Provincializing and pluralizing Reason (Chakrabarty)
Excursion 3: Unreason
Presentiment I: First notes on an affirmation of ecological reason(s)
a) What is (=makes) classical Reason?
b) Speculations on ecological reasonings to come
Chapter 4: How does critique matter?
(a) The limits of critique
(b) Critique and modernity
(c) The dangers of critique
(d) How to criticize
Excursion 4: Post-Truth?
Part III: Emergence and Pluralization
Chapter 5: Re-examining classics
Making do in the ruins of Reason
(A) Phaedrus
a) Contradictions put in place to portray a certain ecology of thought
b) Expelling the Poetry we are devoted to