... the earth, the dome of the Hagia Sophia epitomizes the Byzantine attempt to draw heaven down to earth. This same immanence of the transcendent within the earthly can still be found in contemporary Greece, and above all in the walled monastic communities of Mt Athos, which still embody for us today the truly...

... appear. The chapter then considers the The Last Man on Earth (Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, 1964) and The Omega Man (Boris Sagal, 1971), the first and second adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend, followed by a discussion of how...

...This chapter explores the growing intensity of our impacts on the natural systems that support us, emphasizing especially the critical importance of biological extinction in limiting both the Earth's productive capacity and our ability to innovate in the development of a sustainable planet...

... of shock, which evinces an astonishing sensitivity both to the unsettled earth underfoot and planetary irregularities, offer a way to figure the sense of disorientation shared by Tieck, Goethe, and Stifter as well as that of a contemporary epoch facing a breakdown of the Earth system. Benjamin Walter...

...In this paper I develop an important strand in Nietzsche’s concept of earth by articulating his running critique, explicit and implicit, of Hegel’s idea of world-history. To read Nietzsche as the anti-Hegel is not unusual; it is one of the main themes, for example, of Deleuze’s Nietzsche book. More...

...This chapter discusses the Earth Charter as an articulation of the emerging new global ethics and as a contribution to what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin calls “the formation of a veritable spirit of the earth”. Teilhard views the evolution of life on Earth as continuous with the great evolutionary...

...In this chapter, the first of three dedicated to films from post–World War II Italy, Luchino Visconti’s The Earth Trembles becomes the locus for a reflection on the relation among gesture, generosity, and landscape. The visual weight of the Cyclops Islands as destiny in the film’s...

...Neyrat moves on to reflect on what the attempt at managing the climate, or the popular environmental term of Earth Stewardship, entails and how viewing the Anthropocene through the term of Earth Stewardship can help us to understand what exactly humankind’s position as a major geological force...

...Latour's principle of irreduction blends heaven and earth, and in the same way transcendence and immanence, resistance, and availability, it blends ontology and epistemology. This chapter states that in an experimental metaphysics, one cannot legitimately distinguish between questions about our...

... of anthropogenic extinction, the decimation of species arising explicitly from human action and linked (both metaphorically and literally) to imperial conquest. In so doing, it traces the emergence of a new kind of human “species being,” that is, the human as geophysical force within the Earth system, which...

... technology for granted. Meanwhile, Heidegger suggests that the instrumental understanding of language is allied with technological mastery of the earth. Musing on mortality is equally open to a range of dramatic transformations. Awareness of one's mortality, and the ultimate price being paid for humanity...

... right to exist, to have their “place in the sun.” This is rarely contested, and it is undoubtedly defensible. The image of “my place in the sun” makes it clear that one is not talking about a privileged spot on a private beach but a place on earth that does not deprive others of what is theirs...

...The first images of Earth from space taken by the Apollo missions met with contradictory responses that are telling in relation to the problems of globalism and the environmental movement today. This chapter shows how the “autoimmune” response to seeing the Earth from space signals the need...

...Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance to the images of the Earth then in circulation. In The Geological Unconcious, Jason Groves traces...

...This chapter considers incongruent temporalities in the form of a political theology of the earth. Political theology can rarely be mistaken for ecotheology. At least in its guise as political theory, it leaves concern for the matter of the earth to ecological science, activism, and religion. Key...

... in its own way. War, freedom, justice, sexual difference have all had their day, but today the spectacle of anthropogenic climate change presses philosophy to the limit. Agency, responsibility, time, history, nature, earth, life, science, even truth—are not only live issues, they are becoming...

.... The latter are crucial for building an economy that respects the Divine Wisdom, the Holy Sophia present in nature. i.e. toward an Edenic economy, which he contrasts with a diabolical economy that defiles and destroys sophianic nature. Our task is to prepare the earth as a household (ecos...

... Courtney National Catholic Welfare Conference NCWC Parsons Wilfred Pius XI pope Ryan John A social sciences sociology Catholic social manifesto Curley Michael Joseph Archbishop Fire on the Earth Catholic Worker Compagnia de S Paolo Company of St Paul New Testament Scripture Jewish Old...

...In chapter 13 Neyrat summarizes a variety of conceptions of of the Earth conceived from various actors, from the early founding thinkers of the environmental and ecology movements in the United States such as Aldo Lepold and John Muir to more recent scientific conceptions of the Earth...

... Spirit gets grounded, we may then circulate our life love as a groundswell, rather than as a transcendental updraft. ecofeminism ecological theology Spirit earth Christianity Her legs tap dance under the sheets as her ten-year-old mind reels from her first contemplation of googolplex. Wanting...