An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic NatureSUNY Press, 2008 M01 3 - 218 páginas Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcendence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of salutary change. |
Contenido
Waste | 1 |
The Body | 23 |
Food | 55 |
The City | 89 |
Trash | 121 |
Human Extinction | 157 |
Before the End | 183 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 207 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature Greg Kennedy Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature Greg Kennedy Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Términos y frases comunes
agriculture Albert Borgmann alienated appears authentic basic become being-in-the-world bodily Borgmann chapter Chicken McNugget commodification concealment concepts concern consumer society consumption culture Dasein death Descartes disclosive disclosure disposable commodities earth eating embodied embodied agent essence essential everyday existence existential experience failure fast food Fast Food Nation feast finite finitude garbage Heidegger's human body human extinction Ibid ical industrial innerworldly insofar interpretation involves junk food limits live logical manifest Martin Heidegger meaningful means meta metaphysical mode modern mortal neediness negation nology object objectifying ontological nature ontological paradox ontology of trash ourselves packaging phenomena phenomenon of trash philosophical physical Plato possibility practice present primordial production promise rational reason relation reveal ritual sense sensitive sensorial significance simply substance sumer taking techno temporal things thinking Thomas Merton thought Tierney tion tradition transcendence truth uncaring understanding urban Value of Convenience violence waste Wendell Berry words worldly