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Facing Nature [3.237.178.126] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 16:42 GMT) DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PRESS Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania FacingNature Levinas and Environmental Thought Edited by William Edelglass, James Hatley & Christian Diehm Copyright © 2012 Duquesne University Press All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by Duquesne university Press 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282 No part of this book may be used or reproduced, in any manner or form whatsoever, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of short quotations in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Facing nature : Lévinas and environmental thought / edited by William Edelglass, James Hatley, and Christian Diehm. p. cm. Summary: “Applies Emmanuel Levinas’s thought in approaching environmental philosophy from both humanistic and nonanthropocentric points of view, arguing that themes at the heart of his work—the significance of the ethical, responsibility, alterity, the vulnerability of the body, bearing witness, and politics—are important for thinking about many of our most pressing contemporary environmental questions”—Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-8207-0453-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Lévinas, Emmanuel—Ethics. 2. Environmental ethics. I. Edelglass, William. II. Hatley, James 1949– III. Diehm, Christian, 1969– B2430.L484F334 2012 194—dc23 2011049678 Chapter 4, “Scarce Resources? Levinas, Animals, and the Environment,” by Diane Perpich, is adapted from Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, by Diane Perpich. Copyright © 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. All rights reserved. Used with the permission of Stanford University Press, www .sup.org. Chapter 11, “Toward a Relational Model of Anthropocentrism: A Levinasian Approach to the Ethics of Climate Change,” by J. Aaron Simmons, is an abridged version of chapter 12 of Simmons’s God and the Other: Ethics and Politics after the Theological Turn (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), pp. 257– 81, which is titled “The Ethical: Expansive Relationality—Levinas, Community, and Climate Change.” The abridged version appears here with permission. First eBook edition, 2012 ISBN 978-0-8207-0584-2 ...