Facing Nature: Levinas and Environmental Thought

Contents

CONTENTS Preface vii Abbreviations xix Introduction: Facing Nature after Levinas 1 William Edelglass, James Hatley, and Christian Diehm 1 • Alterity, Value, Autonomy: Levinas and Environmental Ethics 11 Christian Diehm 2 • Facing Animals 25 Peter Atterton 3 • Agency, Vulnerability, and Societas: Toward a Levinasian Politics of the Animal 41 Doug Halls 4 • Scarce Resources? Levinas, Animals, and the Environment 67 Diane Perpich 5 • Ruined Faces 95 Deborah Bird Rose 6 • Levinas and Adorno: Can There Be an Ethics of Nature? 109 Eric Sean Nelson 7 • The Earthly Politics of Ethical An-arch:e: Arendt, Levinas, and Being with Others 135 Mick Smith 8 • Enjoyment and Its Discontents: On Separation from Nature in Levinas 161 Ted Toadvine vi Contents 9 • Earthly Morality and the Other: From Levinas to Environmental Sustainability 191 Silvia Benso 10 • Rethinking Responsibility in an Age of Anthropogenic Climate Catastrophe 209 William Edelglass 11 • Toward a Relational Model of Anthropocentrism: A Levinasian Approach to the Ethics of Climate Change 229 J. Aaron Simmons 12 • The Anarchical Goodness of Creation: Monotheism in Another’s Voice 253 James Hatley 13 • Witness to the Face of a River: Thinking with Levinas and Thoreau 279 Edward F. Mooney with Lyman F. Mower Notes 301 About the Contributors 349 Index 353 ...